A Simple Ode

from Michael C Ford – Look Each Other In The Ears by Michael C Ford

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Eric Dolphy was a revered Alto saxophone player (played all the
reeds, actually) and who many critics expected would surpass
Bird in terms of his innovative musical mind. Feeling he couldn’t
make it, anymore, in New York moved in European jazz circles,
where he eventually died in a typically predictable atmosphere
of abject poverty. Abstract expressionist painter Grace Hartigan
whose allegiance to many New York City poets including Frank
O’Hara (one of the ones integral to her creative process) had been
exhibiting her wall-size murals with titles like Finland, Germany,
Sweden, &c.

2. A Simple Ode

(To Frank Ohara)
Frank, you died just like your poetry
as horizon crushed the bones of sunset: oh Christ!
In your love song to 23rd Street you begged the
gods to let you lie down and be run-over.

We never met you but we knew you, walking
with Daisy Aldan along 2nd Avenue. She
talked about the way you bled back the knives
of urban nostalgia.

Frank, your death is madness.
Your death is Che Guevara trapped on a tramcar
suspended over Disneyland.
Your death is Antonioni directing Doris Day in a
perverted Florentine montage.
Your death is Bing Crosby dreaming of a white
Christmas while Eric Dolphy drowns in a vat full
of Minute Maid Orange Juice.
Your death is Grace Hartigan painting
Coney Island.
Your death is hanging in the Museum Of Modern
Art unguarded. Do you realize that?

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Michael C Ford Los Angeles, California

This album marks a reunion and the last recording for the three Doors members, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, backing up Pulitzer Prize, Grammy nominated poet Michael C Ford. Vocal performances are added by Tommy Jordan (Geggy Tah) and Angelo Moore (Fishbone). ... more