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The Middle East

Middle of what? The eurocentric “West?” West of what? The East in the Middle of the West is how you get confused boundaries and their inevitable wars. At least the Romans arranged their subject people rationally. Example: Palestine. 

When Rome merged with the Germanic world things got weird. They took the Levantine game of chess and diced the world into a gameboard upon which they could place their thumbs and cry, king me. The West demanded order of a sort which they controlled. What exactly is a Pakistan? Is it where the nasty Pakis come from to Sharia once great Britannia?

Their rules and boundaries became our cage. Chasing after Armageddon for Aryan Jesus’ comeback tour is their excuse to to throw away the key and keep the wrong sort not out but locked in, under control, in docile labor camps of barbed wire or as debt consumptives: pick one or they will.

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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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