There is nothing quite as vacuous American
as the remake, the failure of imagination
after the MBAs and the accountants
take control, repeating the same stories
over and over like a time-tested lullaby
until everyone is sufficiently asleep.
Are you ready for the AI directed
do-over of Kent and Jackson State
or for Detroit 67 and Watts 68?
Japanese Internment? Operation Wetback?
The scripts have been in development
for years waiting for financial backing.
The folks who made CGI superheroes
and AI generated deep fakes possible
have their checkbooks and pens out.
They’re ready to drop a blockbuster
on anyone who stands between them
and the top of the Forbes 500.
History II: Revenge of the Stupid
About Me
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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