Today Eye Got Up
@ 4:30 2 put the cats out
(Eye have successfully gotten rid
of their cat box)
Made My Decaf
and instead of dancing
went back to bed
2 have The Dream
of trying 2 get Eva out
of the nursing home
She was put in by Her Children
2 die and not 2 live —
Eye said 2 Her
“Don’t have a heart attack –“
as Eye hoisted Her up
and onto My Shoulder
M(Eye) MONSTER
@ The Foot of M(Eye) Bed
came alive This Morning
In All His Darkness
and glinting glass —
@ His Base Lies
Priscilla’s TV
smashed but glowing
with The Fateful Obscenity
scrawled & sprawled across It
Eye can dance
before This Hero O’ Mine
in cold pre-dawn
(if I feel like it)
and cast M(Eye) SHADOW
across THE SILVER SCREEN
pulled down
@ M(Eye) WINDOW
so nobody peeps
A Beam of Moonlight
is hitting My Bedroom Can Painting
& My X’s Cat Cami
is pawing at My Back
Oh –She jumped on the window sill
& blocked It —
There is The Artist
Who lives on Cape Sable Island
Who claims She spawned 9/11
with Her Galactic Canvas
of The Elliptical Spiral:
Her Emblem of NO BEGINNING
& NO END
stretched out on World Trade Center #5
in 1984 — 9 years before the first bombing
17 years before The Final Shut Down
She made Her Statement
in Western Dress
with Heaps of Hair
& Her Emphatic Smile
to inadvertently Shock
& Rock The Islamic World —
to Command The Attention of
The Rest of Our’s
This morning’s snowy light
hits One Can Painting
in My New Living Room
cleared out recently
of all loose art
so now Eye can gaze
at the shining remnant of CANADA DRY
afixed to My Copper-coloured Plaque
hanging across from Me
as Eye sit writing
from My Uncle’s Wing Chair
My “X” is no longer
“My” X — He
has been thrown out
now
All that Eye possess of Him
is One Garfield Garbage Can
His Cat Cami
Who yeowls incessantly
for Me to pet Her yet
Eye have awakened
from The Dream of Dr Blair
Balding On Top
with elongated eyebrow hairs
with His Arms skinny like His Girlfriend’s
So now Eye can Stop
feeling taken in
by His Deep Blue Eyes
His Thick Silver Hair:
All that Eye really once loved
My Daughter is with Me
asleep still
before Eye make Her Coffee —
My X’s Cat Cami
has finally shut up
Her Terrific Yeowling
for ferocious pettings
and snow laces The View
of My Gully nestled
with His Companion
against a patch of grass
by The Scraggly Apple
Eye have always MOVED.
Eye have never been inert —
for billions & trillions of years
before Eye was conceived
in The Mind of God —
butt then Who was counting??
Now There Are Two Gulls
sitting on My Deck Rail —
Well Eye cannot feed
Both of Them
Bacon for Breakfast
So Gully will have to desert
His Friend
What Day Was It
when Dr Blair lied to Me?
When He wrote in The Morning
“I Am Completely Alone
And Intend To Stay That Way –“
and then that Same Morning
He stood behind Me
in The Bank (CIBC)
with His _______ Girlfriend
and then seated at Lunch (JB’s)
when Eye stood at His Table
and His ______ Girlfriend
burst into tears?
Joanna Gilman Hyde 