Joanna Gilman Hyde

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The Hawk Deck 2:22pm

Eye could very easily

Rub out Your Yellow Star —

Give Me a Moment

Like the One Eye had

A million years ago

And I’ll work for You

If provoked

I’ll work

PROOF

The Hawk Deck 11:45am

The Daisies R M(eye) Universe

Oh how I love Them so —

I picked My One @ random

And de-flowered Him to know

Yes He loves me

Now I’m sure

And tell you

I’ll be true

For years & years I’ve longed for Him

Butt now Eye’s

Foolin U

 

TIME WARP

My Bedroom Rocking Chair 11:11am

This morning when I woke

@ 6:00

Eye did not know for the life of me

How old it was I could not be —

I wondered if I was 22

Or if I was 23

Then I remembered I’m “56”

And said, “Oh yeah”

2 X It

The Narcotic

My Hawk Bedroom 11:30am

Dr —– has been known

To be of greatest comfort

He has the look in his blue eyes

Of consolation and confidence —

He pulled me in as his patient

Twenty years ago

He councelled me on my true love

Pushing to let go

I didn’t listen

Never could

And so was thrown the dice

Of drugs galore

From other docs

With Dr —–‘s

Advice.

Eye stayed immune

From his control

As blind as he could work

Until one night before my food

He placed a pill, The Jerk

At my table of supper cooked

By me I was his wife

#3 as I lay bare

His Fallacy of Life

 

 

 

 

December 27th, 2016- 8:10am

My Hawk Bedroom 10:22am

Don’t ever let your husband make

His concoction of whipped cream and lace:

“Bullet-proof coffee”

Served from a blender —

He just might whack you

In the face

 

 

THE RAPIST (revised)

My Hawk Bedroom 10:00am

Yes he came at me

And pushed me on my bed —

But it’s what he said

I cannot erase

It’s forever in my head:

What every woman

Should never hear

From the man who spread her legs

“I could rape you”

Hear and now —

Am I ever seeing RED

 

THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN

My Hawk Bedroom 9:15am

I used to have a special couch

Where I would sit to think —

I sometimes dressed to play the part

Of a woman who doesn’t drink.

She wore The Cloth of Oprah crepe

And silver to her bows

She demanded attention

From anywhere

To address the world’s woes

Her husband thought she

Paraded around —

He didn’t like her trot.

Up in The Corner Room

She sat with him

Upon a pull-out cot

They talked, they bantered

It got hardly anywhere —

And then for his commanding

Flare he broke to solid ground:

“Can I fuck the persona?”

Was all he asked —

And she stepped outside

Her Gown

QUOTE

My Hawk Bedroom 8:45am

On June 15th a year ago

I quit a drug of chain —

I lost some sleep

But that was fine

My insight I regained

My husband then laid out straight

Naked on our bed

He looked at me with lusty eyes

And this is what he said:

“Maybe you’ll become a sex maniac”

 

BEDSIDE MANNER

My Hawk Bedroom 8:05 am

Years ago when my kids were small

And he was “dating” me

A knock came pounding on my door

He let her in to see —

He let his second wife enraged

Up my stairs

To me

I sat upon my bed unclothed

No covers placed for modesty —

He held her off

As she flailed at me

I poised for SOMETHING worse:

“Take a look” was all he said

And married me to boot

Mammal of The Sea

The Hawk Wing Chair 6:50pm

One Epoch brought Him in

Stranded on the sand —

He breathed and blinked slowly

At me

As the tide turned

And I thought He might die there

But I watched Him till the last

Wave lapped at His aquatic feet —

His fish-grabbing hands floundered

In an heroic struggle

To return

To His Time