Float of Drive

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

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Three random selections from a work-in-progress entitled
One Southern California Concerto After Another.

11. Suburban Freeway Triple By-Pass

One

rain has always been capable of
muttering soft songs against a
window-whirl of glass over tin
portico rooftops, over sidewalk
suburban purgatorial concrete
or on the asphalt wet of
dinner-bound gridlock

yes, these metallic deities against the
whole freeway drag: a toll road: a
Rosemead road just another swinging
watch-fob in our hypnotized eyes

was Arcadia ever a long Saturday
matinee of memories and our thoughts
ever tall transcriptions telling us: catch
a radio on Garden Grove grass: sound
waves in green fumes: maybe there were
too many manhole covers, too many cisterns,
because look now at how foggy air is
informing us that it’s the no of not knowing
anything about the old Oak Knoll road going
the race of the driving rain: the driving trance
of it: the float of drive on Huntington Drive

TWO

an inflection of intermittent
Eastland suburban showers a few
vacant lots for a few vacant people
are all chained to too infrequent
changes in the weather chained to
this collective brain rain tropical
around the real Route 66 environs

the ears of the rest of us are tied to
a soundtrack of emotional wisdom

incurable diseases of isolation are
captured as significant spies in the
scree of the San Gabriel Valley

THREE

in San Marino we were breaking up
behind invasions from relatives
cracking up due to these human
jokes: too long without strong
reservations at the Huntington Hotel
wow we had reservations too because
of this insane coincidence of invisible
corners on the Santa Ana Freeway: that
point of too many returns where Santa
Fe Springs and Norwalk and Downey all
coincide in one long intense and terrible
assault on each other

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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