Well Bottom Blues

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The Fun House of Madness.

In a comment on a post of on Facebook I came up with the perfect description of my nightly dreamscape:

A film by Federico Fellini, produced by Luis Briñel, from a script by David Lynch, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Or as I like to to call it The Chase Light Colliope Fun House of Madness.

This is in spite of two medications typically prescribed for PTSD nightmares. whatever level of PTSD I carry from the survivor guilt that led me to start my WetBankGuide.blogspot.com blog and move my family to a disaster area in 2006, that’s probably not the cause. Vivid dreams run in my family, and as a writer I take them to worrisome heights of flights of fancy.

As I tell my partner Patrice when I make a bad pun or otherwise let my inside voice out when I shouldn’t: welcome to the Mind of Mark. I’d leave my brain to science but I don’t want Patrice’s first worry in her grief to be calling some 800 number so they could rush a team down to pluck it.

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Ghost of a Poet, Risen. Woke as fuck. Beltalowda. Thor Viki. Singing about the dark times. Formerly of WetBankGuide.blogspot.com & ToulouseStreet.wordpress.com & @OddWords. wellbottomblues.com

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Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis,  What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).

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