Joanna Gilman Hyde

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What did Dr Blair

hope to achieve by holding

me down for so long?

FOR CHAGALL

The Hawk Kitchen Outpost 10:03am

I D-R-E-M-P-T

I was back

in Alphabet Land

— is It still called Alphabet Land?

on The Lower East Side

of Manhattan

over thirty years later

in a gentrified kitchen

tiny

as

My Own

COKE — COK — COCK

The Tomato-coloured Cock 9:22pm

(notes from an unscheduled meeting with an old psychiatrist)

“You’re just a very nice Lady Who lives in Shelburne –”

“Well, I don’t live in Shelburne anymore —

and do You know

what colour My Underwear is, Jimbo?”

“No, I don’t”

“It’s Red — Jimbo — Red Lace — and

do You know how many views I have

on My New York City Rooftop Painting?

three thousand, and twenty-two  — what do I stand for Now?

“I don’t know –”

“I’m An American — Jimbo —

dressed here in Red, White and Blue

wearing My Pro-Life underwear —

and if You ever call Me a nice lady again

I’ll kick You in the balls”

THE STATUE OF LITERACY

The Hawk West Desk Window 9:44pm

My Third Grade Class Trip

to The Statue of Liberty

involved climbing the interior

circular staircases

up to Her Crown

— or was it Her Arm?

seeing Humans below

looking like ants

as I wrote the next day

from My Changed Perspective

and did I write

that Miss Robley

gave Me a dime

to buy An Orange Popsicle?

THE PALISADES PARKWAY

The 103 to Halifax, January 17th

In That Dark

Behind Red Tail Lights

I Was That Girl

In NYC Attire

Picked Up

from a car parking lot

driven into That Night by a silver haired executive

VP of CBS

I was His Girl Next Door

Who wrote fantasy letters to His Office

& begged to go to Japan —

off into That Silent Night I rode

sunk in His Passenger Seat

“I Got

Your Letter”