Whatever Happened To The Orangegrove Grandma

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

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10. Whatever Happened To The Orange Grooves Grandma
Oh

Just more landscape rape: more planned obsolescence
replacing 40,0000 orangegrove acres {151 acres on
rented family property} along Route 66 with tract
housing, follow-the-dot parking lots and shopping
mall hell: all this healing verdant fragrant oxygen-
producing eco-system bulldozed down. And, now, it’s
as if Eastland suburban Los Angeles itself has been,
with sinister precision, delivered dead-on-arrival.

Inland, East: Aunt Louise and Uncle George
lived in the middle of miles of a scattering
scent and shade of oranges.

Upland, Ontario: 15 years, later turning into 151
acres of supermarkets and cement vicissitudes
of blossomless parking-lots. Eucalyptus trees
peeling and weaving in a suburban
cemetery dance of the living
dead.

The rotten Goodyear tire-swing is gone
replaced by fiberglass illusions, Formica
jungles, pastel quads and television lobotomy.
Oh, you sun-pocked, smog-drenched din of
silence! Trapped in the tract, stuck in the
stucco, dreamless in the bad beds of our own
making.

Though Dubious rituals under the dooms of
porticos in Southern California cannot convey
real orders of enlightenment. Can they be less
fulfilling? Can they be less life-fulfilling?
In Phoenix, Arizona? Yet, although there are these
postures of put-downing, grandma, sometimes, even with
all this, oh grandma, sometimes,
the signatures of poets are put upon patches of blue sky
and the breezes blown thru our bodies sound like Bach fugues!

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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