the simple true                                    |
                       ­                                                                vs.
absurd *******:

water        on mars                                  points to the future of
the dead earth;

Fascists vs. aliens                                |  complete fossils of advanced
                                                               hominids found miles
                                                               deep below [              ]
                                                ­               the Martian surface [but w/ no signs
                                                               of engineering or built structures]

questions w/ no answers                      |
what kind of society did        Martians have:
dictatorship, democracy or empire     & what kind of poetry
did they write:
                       searching for the great epic poet
of Mars      beginning by digging straight down           past the fossil record
coming upon an entirely        other set of structures & fossils dated
        thousands  of years                     before those previously found
                      & further down,        more advanced forms of society
    
        at the deepest strata advanced electronics &          technology appears
        w/ less & less hominid forms,       n        still w/no evidence of written
        poetry
                                                 ­               
                                                 ­               |
                                  Martian poetry may have been oral; so in
                                  setting up sound meters to detect
                   residual radio-sound waves,      the history of sound can be
                   recorded & focused on any one particular voice or several:
                   from this we detect recited verse
no matter how far back it was uttered; in truth, the older the better as it's
easier to distinguish                                     & isolate the particular voice
from ambient rhythms