Well Bottom Blues

I wonder how a book of adult themed poems in the style of children’s books would sell? if it needs some appropriate illustrations.

Definitely NOT a children's poem
 

there is a thing inside my head 
it wakes me up when I'm in bed 
imagine squirrels on a wheel 
frantically spinning with a squeal 
and I'll get up and roam about 
or lay there with a scowlly pout 
in the morning it's still there 
chasing me up and down the stair 
it likes to write and so I do
that's why I've written this for you
it's like a battery on the tongue°
but everywhere which is no fun
it makes you talk until you told
to go away with a voice of scold
and so I fidget about the house 
as if I were a midnight mouse 
looking for something useful to do 
and sometimes something stupid, too
it's best if I just go and write 
by this buzzing blinking light
or go to walk among the trees 
until I finally feel at ease

although they sometimes make me sneeze

° ask your parents how it's done 
  it really is a lot of fun

— Mark A. Folse © 2025