The Sunsetting
“Good night, and good luck”
— Edward R. Murrow.
Burning red and orange
are the colors of sunset
and the President is
sunsetting on television.
Welcome to the twilight
of the United States.
Our monuments are gilt
in Krylon metallic gold
and the Capitol has become
an unbarred madhouse.
Visit the New and Improved
Smithsonian museums
full of Beautifulest American
Truth in the fashion of Kincade
especially the new Museum
of the White Genocide.
Exit through the grift shop.
The Sunsetting
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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