Joanna Gilman Hyde

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July 15, 2013

NOW 2

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:45pm

I live in a place

where all the vehicles

are the colour of angels

& license plates signal Me

I’m wearing white shorts

& Silver jewellery

sitting on My Tomato-coloured Couch

listening to 90’s on 9

listening to the decade

of My hospitalizations

where I didn’t read

just wrote & talked

much like Now

except Now

I want to Live

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July 15, 2013

MY GOD

Barrington Passage 3:50pm

My Private God

is Public Now

ANYBODY CAN SEE HER —

The Beautiful Dark Haired Woman

with An Orange Blossom

at Her Left Ear

She came to Me

after a fight with The Big Guy

Who was trying to get Me

to serve Him:

I declared to Him

“I will not serve God —

I will NOT — I will

serve only My Self!”

& then I realized I was

THE MOST SELF-ISH PERSON

IN THE WORLD —

to be called to serve God

& to REFUSE

only to serve My Self?

And that’s when My Own God appeared —

Her Beautiful Dark Head

protruded from My Right Shoulder

as if I had two heads

She spoke the most melodious words

I had ever heard —

ANYBODY CAN HEAR HER:

“You know The Meaning Of Life

and so You are a Star,

so go to sleep”

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July 15, 2013

ALERT

The Hawk Deck 1:15pm

I am on The Verge

of Something Big

drinking from The Cup of Life

watching rustling leaves

along The Hedge

with fog wafting past

opening out to Me

the interwoven

sustenance

of calling birds

& One

Steady

Fog

Horn

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July 14, 2013

AFTER THE EMBRACE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:00pm

Face To Face

with My Favourite Psychiatrist

I stated The Obvious:

“I can fulfil Your Ultimate Fantasy —

didn’t You say You wanted to be

Canada’s Greatest Psychiatrist?”

“That was just a manner of speaking –“

“Are You being Honest?”

“Joanna, You’re standing on The Edge

of a Cliff, looking down –“

I fell headlong into a morass

of psychosis, medication

& the strongest physical desire

I had ever known

for The Little Doctor

Who had embraced Me

on October 22, 1993 

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July 12, 2013

SHE FELL IN LOVE

The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:35pm

She Fell In Love

with The Little Man

on October 22, 1993

–

when She felt a compulsion

to SAY something

& She didn’t know what IT would be

–

At Eight in the morning She went

to The Hospital where He was working

She asked for Him at The Front Desk

Another Doctor was suggested

but She refused, saying She would wait

–

after twenty minutes

She was directed to a little room

an examining room

where He stood before Her with folded arms

–

“I have something I must say –”

He tried to cut Her off by saying

“These things have happened before –”

“But I am compelled to say IT.  I must say IT —

Would You believe Me, would You accept

What I have to SAY?”

–

He nodded & said, “Yes, go ahead, tell Me –”

–

Her Arms lifted up & out to both sides

as She was seated:

“There Is A God”

as She rose to His Unfolded Embrace

 

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July 12, 2013

THE SUMMATION VERSION

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

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July 12, 2013

SOBEY’S

The Tomato-coloured Couch 12:45pm

Sobey’s is a home-grown grocery operation

with A Parking Lot

as one of the most innocent

& unassuming

public spaces

in existence

(at least around here)

Unsuspecting Shoppers

push Their Full Carts to Their Cars

push Empty Carts back

to The Cart Corral

Which says “In The Event

of An Emergency

Gather Here”

What is Sobey’s 

preparing

for?

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July 11, 2013

I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:00pm

I Can Do Whatever I Want

I Can Write Anything

I Feel

I Can Write “I”

A Million Times

& Disregard That Man’s Word “ego”

Cancel It Right Out

I Know The Meaning Of Life:

I Have My Own Private God

A Beautiful Dark-haired Woman

Who Told Me In My Right Ear

“You Know

The Meaning Of Life

& So You Are A Star —

So Go To Sleep”

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July 10, 2013

NAKED AS I WRITE

The Hawk West Desk Window 11:00pm

Over Seven Billion Human Hearts

are beating away —

some for the last time

some for the first —

how can Their Rhythms

be harnessed

for the awaited

Destiny of The Divine:

The Emblem of Far-reaching Truth

& Prosperity

of Our Organism?

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July 9, 2013

OUR SHOWER

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:30pm

When I had My Shower of Silver Lights

over twenty years ago

I transferred

The Totality of God

on & into My Self

& spoke of It as such

ever since

Until Today

I spoke It all again

to a beautiful brown-haired woman

& by so doing

I

have

become

OURS

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