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We're living on Mars!
We're living on Mars!
CreatorFerguson, Jenny
TitleWe're living on Mars!
LCSH SubjectArtistic collaboration
Work Type (AAT)poetry
ContributorsKessler, Teniesha
Relation-Is Part OfAcross the universe; http://dlsd.sdln.net/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/exhibitions&CISOPTR=104&CISOBOX=1&REC=6
Full textWhen there's a twenty-minute time lag between I love you and I love you too or I don't love you at all or Did you remember to turn off the space stove? We are inside time in the canyonlands of coupledom where matches take twenty minutes to burn to the finger-held end, where we would pretend to be Russian cosmonauts holding our twenty-minute flames. But scientists they tell us there's no fire in space. So with time between us, Do I look fat in this space-suit? Plays an origami game with my fingers, folding and creasing the Mars Society promotional materials, our recycled toilet paper: "Mars is the great challenge of our time." And this is the worst Christmas gift I could give you. To eat dehydrated stew like potato chips because we are not allowed to shower because the pee water recycler contains ten percent more urate, more yellowed than well water where I used to swim at the spring's source. Because of the Russian cosmonauts, this one-way trip and you're in love with Mars and I want a stove that burns old growth to cook you real food so you'll want to swing me from the tire-swing branch in the blighted apple tree with its withered apples sun-shrunk fleshy earth taste.
Date Original2013-01-18
Height11
Width8 1/2
Measuring Unitinches
IdentifierAEA0063
ExhibitionCorroborations 2013
NoteCorroborations 2013 was held at the University Libraries, The University of South Dakota, from January 28 – May 3, 2013. The Corroborations 2013 exhibition paired USD visual arts and poetry majors in order to create new collaborative work and to both broaden acceptance and appreciation of alternative art disciplines.
RightsCopyright © 2013, Jenny Ferguson
Digitization SpecificationsMaster file format: 10541736 bytes, 8 bit, Grayscale, 2866 x 3673, 300ppi, uncompressed, image/tif, MD5: 80c4d8db8f0389a3b6260697698d4326, Microtek ScanMaker 1000XL Pro flatbed scanner, Microtek ScanWizard Pro Version 7.043 for Windows, Adobe Bridge CS4 (64 bit) Windows, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 2009 Service Pack 1 (64 bit)
Date Digital2013-01-23
Languageeng
TypeImage
Still Image
Text
Formatimage/jp2
Digital PublisherUniversity of South Dakota. University Libraries
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