The Hawk Deck 5:35pm
After The Shower Of Lights
The Little Girl was not So Little
She had been struck over The Head
by A Very Giant Object
attached to God
& He wasn’t going to let Her away
so easily
That Night
after relatives and The Nurse Do Do
took Her to the hospital
where Her Mother had died
four days earlier
The New Big Girl was seen by A Little Man
Who asked all the right questions
& ordered a room
–
In That Darkened Hospital Room
in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
March 31st, 1993
The Little Girl who was no longer Little
saw floating in The Darkness
a loose brown cylindrical mass
which slowly opened from its centre
to reveal nothing less
than The Meaning Of Life
couched within a Joke of such magnitude
that only God could have thought It up:
You Are The Reason For Schizophrenia
She puzzled over this and questioned Her Sanity
& decided that if She could question Her Sanity
She was not “Insane”
–
The next morning, April Fool’s Day, The Little Man
came into Her Room
& as She tried to assume some explanation
as to what had befallen Her
The Little Man stood at the foot of Her Bed
& said, “You won’t find anything about this in any medical text books
but some people who have had these kinds of experiences
are called Seers.”
She Fell In Love With Him
Joanna Gilman Hyde 