THE JOKER
The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:30pm
One hospitalized night
I saw The Meaning Of Life
open out before My Astonished Eyes
to reveal a profound Joke —
A Joke I had no way of expressing
but A Joke to make The World Laugh
not to Death
but to Life
A New Life, A New Era
where God is unnecessary
where God can be laughed off
laughed at
& thrown into a corner
a rigid corner, or pocket (like a pool table)
where He can see
He no longer resides
on Earth
except in the form
of uncornered Humans
Who find Their True Meaning
in a spirituality
unseparate
Joanna Gilman Hyde 