Wartime Carol

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

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Sometimes, the homefront is more horrifying than
any battlefield. This is, here, highlighted by a
Jordan/Steinberger ironic musical refrain
recollecting a familiar and, in a sense, lyrically
ominous Teutonic Christmas carol quote.

9 War Time Carol

(Bringing The War Back Home)
Remembering, when the U.S. President: George,
the senior Bush got food poisoned in Japan, and
hurling all over the Nipponese flag :in retrospect,
a perfect metaphor, perhaps, for the perpetration
of Operation Desert Storm.

The 1980s were going away and I was catching
a green light walking across the terminal
illness of Pico Blvd. then over to my
neighborhood street, hoofing down the
driveway, passed the main house used-to-be
pool shed dressing-room attached to the former
‘40s bungalow residence, there, where I’d been
living for the past 19 years.

The refugee woman from Central America who
escaped being skewered by CIA-sanctioned fascist
police in Nicaragua was cacked-out in a garden
chair in front of the apartment compartment
adjacent to mine.

She’s always been rather decent and friendly and
is, now, holding up this morning’s edition of the
Los Angeles Times, pointing at one of the sub-
headlines reporting what the Bush man did on a
visit to Japan. “Your president is sick,” she said.
I answered: “They’re the only kinds who
get elected.”

I stepped into my room. took a vintage
water pistol off its easel and thought
about my father’s brother who came back
from World War II, moved to Utica,
New York, using a similar toy
held-up a liquor store for two bottles of
Jameson 's Irish, was immediately
apprehended and sentenced to doing a
nickel for armed robbery.

Yes, that’s the way this country treats its brave
and damaged veterans of foreign conflict: so,
thinking about all of it, putting the barrel of the
water gun against my right temple, nudging the
trigger and washing out my version of
Vincent van Gogh’s other ear.

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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