Dr Blair was surprised
I didn’t end up
in a dumpster in New York —
Well — he’ll be a lot more
surprised
when Eye end up
as The New Darling
of The Black Revolution
“God is The Ultimate
Control Freak”
There is a place for Marriage
in amongst the confessions
of many — The Vow
and if You break it
You’re in trouble.
My First Vow was “until Death”
and The Death was My Mother’s —
My Second
I don’t remember voicing
and the wedding itself
was an abomination.
Don’t have sex
if you are fertile
and do not want to get pregnant —
If you do get pregnant
and you are afraid to have The Child
think of Him or Her
as Your Own Creation
Your Own Empowerment:
The Bond of Mother and Child
is Sacred
My Divorcing Husband
has allowed Me to become
The Social Outcast
Who walks My expansive beach alone
Who sleeps with
The Virginal Banana
Who reads Her Verse
dressed like a vamp
while He refuses to ask
“How did it go?”
In My Favourite Restaurant
Eye overheard The Waiter
Talking to The Cook:
“How can You have time
for God and Your Wife?”
Eye called out from My Booth:
“What if God and Your Wife
are One and The Same?”
The Human Mind can
and does believe anything:
Believe what you want
Possibility
of The Devil proffered but
fiercely rejected
Joanna Gilman Hyde 