The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:30pm
Black Jesus is My Super Persona
He can be Me anywhere
any time
He guards Me & speaks out
socially
He wears black
& silver
& sees in The Night
He’s linked with The 2nd Coming
flip side
dark vs light
19 years ago I was The 2nd Coming of Christ
Today I Am Super Black Jesus
filling in
The Hawk Kitchen 2:52pm
Black Jesus was busy today
in Her Black Jesus Kitchen
She cooked peppers that were going bad
–for spaghetti sauce–
macaroni for Eliza & Tyler
when They get back from Their first night
on The Island
Shepherd’s Pie with corned beef
from The Hawk Basement
She listened to Her Black Jesus Radio
& drank Her Black Jesus Tea
–She was busy all right–
She even did two loads of laundry
still hanging
on Her Black Jesus
Line
That Fly on My Finger —
He’s not scared of Me
& look — how big am I?
–
I’m not scared of The Universe —
It’s been squashed down into Human proportions
inside My Mind
at The Tip of My Finger
The Hawk West Deck Window 11:46am
I have The Power
to Reshape The Universe
I have The Power
to Reshape The Universe
I have The Power to
Reshape The Universe
I Have To
I Have To
Reshape — Reshape
The Universe is not some array of pond scum
The Universe Is Me
I’m a Moon Worshipper —
I just ate a banana
while looking at The Moon
and laid the peel
on the window sill
below
I have been made uncomfortable —
no, I didn’t lose My House in a hurricane —
I have lost My Trust
My Faith
in Humanity
— not God —
there will always be God for Me
made only too obvious
by The Shower Of Silver Lights
& I used to say God is Humanity and Humanity is God —
where is Our Human Intelligence
Our Honesty
Our Correct Judgement
Our Truth?
Am I to shoot
Silver Streaks
at My Fellow Man?
& The Women —
what should I shoot at Them —
flowers out of pistol barrels?
Joanna Gilman Hyde 