Mars Is America

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

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Sometimes, one has to imagine inhabiting another intergalactic
region, in order to survive subtraction from all of one’s life that
had been, before, so insignificantly earthbound.,

5. The Retreat

Possible - "Mars Is America" (THIS IS A POSSIBLE TITLE)

(Reasons Why There's LIfe On Mars)
Wishing to deny attitudes of impatience and
dissatisfaction, I decide to move to the planet
Mars.The weekend I arrive crystalline kids
throw stolen plutonium stones at glass houses every
night. During the day, with hands marked by a
leprosy of spiders, they applaud themselves
through truant alleyways.

There is treachery in every tree they climb: it’s a question now of
how much hostility I can stand in one sitting.
I lock my door from the inside of a Galaxy 6
Motel, then boost myself over the sill of a
chink’d window.

Winter blisters in my hair: pink
moonlight wobbles on a shrinking canal. I swim
across to the other shore side: what’s left of my
identity becomes debris that mixes with drainage
underwater. My senses turn into anthropological
ghost stories: my star eyes go Cro-Magnon.

It isn’t long before scrawny lavender branches begin to umbrella my
primitive head. I am armed only with sticks and a butane lighter
from the Jupiter boutique on Europa. I build a fire:
I crouch and dream with other disillusioned tourists.

Suddenly, we’re surrounded by radar cars, placed in
plastic cages, then paraded through the narrow
streets of transparent towns. It doesn’t take anytime
at all to admit to the truth of a well-entrenched
Martian aphorism.

The grass is always redder on
the other side of the senses.

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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