Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

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“HOW’S IT GOIN’?”

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 7:28pm

“Hi Joanna — what U doin’ Today?”

“Imma Usherin’ in The New Age.”

“The New Age of What?”

“The New Age of Silver –what else?”

“How U doin’ that?”

“With how I deck My Body

& how I deck My Mind.”

“What d’ya mean?”

“My Mind is My Body

& My Jewels are My Accent.”

CONFESSION

The Hawk TV Room 6:11pm

During The NYC September

of 1984

EYE painted

The Bull’s EYE

for Our Twin Towers

filmed by German Television —

when I mailed That Video

to My Father in Saudi Arabia

He never got It

I Believe M(EYE) Video Was Confiscated

by The Islamic Religious Police

Circulated Through Various Extremist Factions

inflamed by the overt display

of a beautiful Western Woman

with Long Blond Hair

doing & achieving such

A Public & Powerful Act —

I believe The Bombing

of February 1993 was instigated

by M(EYE) Painting

“Self Organizing Galaxy”

The Coup d’etat

is

Our Precious

9/11

FROM A TUB

The Hawk En Suit Bath 6:44pm

Remove The Crust

of Aeons’ Years —

Dispose of Your Treachery

into My Hallowed-out Hands —

within These Sinister Bubbles

I Reside to Exhume

The Blackest Blackness

of Faith Gone Awry

MY PHONE RINGS 9/11

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 1:11pm

I wore White in The Beginning

Black @ The End

I wear Silver & Gold

& Grey Today

as I have come

This Far to state

The Reconciliation of Opposites

where East

meets

West

in This Epic Collision

of Feminine Power

ARMED & DANGEROUS

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 8:29pm

Armed with a blunted bread knife

clutched right-handed

I have baked My Last Cake

& am about to survive

outside My Kitchen Haven

deep inside the lands of dispute

& vocalization of the state

of Our Laws & Morality

Dignity & Human Endeavor

BLUE MONDAY*

The Hawk Queen Bed 10:00pm

Today I wore a Parade of Gold

dangling medallions

& nugget rings

all for the cause

of making millions

out of the pockets

of few

*Turd Ferguson

BLACK & GOLD

The Hawk Deck 12:42pm

I Fed The Gulls

In My Signature Dress

in view of conscientious construction workers

& Fed My Husband

a bagel & cream cheese

while He Listened

to The Internet

HERE I COME!

The Hawk Deck 10:52am

As The World Crashes

Down Around Me

I Rise To Do

My Laundry

On This MOST Beautiful Day

Of Dis-cover-y

PROGRESSION

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 2:22pm

Molten Silver greets Me

in The Morning

Hardened Gold at Night

Silver I will stock

ahead of The Game

while Gold will just delight

LET’S GET ONE THING ESTABLISHED

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 5:55pm

My Orange Macro-me knitting bag

has Mylar sparkles & a lining

the colour of Flaming June’s dress

My Knitting Stitch is the colour

of drying blood

60 stitches wide by 22* rows

I am creating

The Swath

of My Endometrium

*lie