Well Bottom Blues

Oh my God it's full of stars!

I’m Auto-Tuned Out

I'm Auto-Tuned Out 

I have a voice that is not auto-tuned
to the popular. Stanzas: what's up
with that? And rhyme sometimes.
Blame that Bob Dylan character,

and Ian Anderson. And, oh, all those 
Norton Anthologies, starting us on
Vol. 1 so young and impressionable.
I can carry a note but my ear is tuned

to the page, however I might hum
as I go about chiseling out a poem,
searching like that Faustian madman
for the crystal in the stone, the nymph

poised beside the ruins of the past.
I'm going nowhere fast but look:
I've carried you this far without
multi-media or a beat box

with words all in an unbroken row.

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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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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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