Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Who Cares?

Eye am The Woman

of glitter and gold

Eye have entered The Age

of Silver

to have and to hold

The Age of indifference —

Eye will never grow old

WHAT’S UP DOC?

Hey Dr Blair

why don’t you tell them

Eye used to care

I used to wash your hair

like a Japanese housewife

why don’t you tell them

I put cream on your legs

at night

why don’t you tell them

Dr Blair —

Why don’t you tell them —

was Eye CRACKED?

The Silver Anniversary

Eye woke This Morning

from The Dream

of cleaning up cat shit

with M(eye) bare hands —

the cat shit was in the shape

of a computer key board —

laid on the seat of M(eye) Grandparents’

Victorian Rosewood Chair.

The Key Board was intricate —

It was Intricate Shit —

and I had It on My Hands

FUCK

for 25 years

Eye have been stressed —

oppressed, suppressed, repressed —

the snake has no truck

with Me

NOW

Palm Sunday

Eye have The New Christ

pinned to M(eye) wall

She lays with Her Backside

bare to us all —

She fucks our Netflicks

to the content of Her Heart —

She dangles Her Crotch

& lets out a fart

In M(eye) House

Eye am in

The Silver Anniversary

of M(eye) Mother’s Death:

The Shower of Silver  Lights

is 25 Years Old

and now Eye am free

of Its Stigma

and am living

under The Sun

& Moon

ALIEN EYE

Eye have lifted M(eye) Shade

to The Alien Eye

of comfort & quiet

in the dark of morning’s night —

It shines through M(eye) Crack

as a blink of The Light

from out on The Cape

to surrender M(eye) Fight

A Rhyme for the Sake of Rhyming

Eye live in a hutch

of snow and ice

Eye need my crutch —

that would be nice

ERNIE DEXTER, ARTIST

EYE have hung M(eye) X

upon the wall

below M(eye) Painting

bought

of someone’s old house

done in pink —

a Nova Scotia house

out in the bleak

CONTEST

Eye have hung My Portrait

upon the wall

above His Books

Eye would forestall

We’re in a contest

to & fro

& Eye don’t care

where He goes

He thought Eye would write

pretty poems

& paint Him pictures of blue

& white

He was wrong

for Eye have come

to see Him as

My Only Plight

if Eye could dip His Head

in Black

I would fight

for My Self

back

but He has The Bucks

Eye need to live

& so Eye am helpless

to forgive