Well Bottom Blues

Oh my God it's full of stars!


Epic Dreaming

Enough of this Odysseus in space shit: the intricate plots, my almost lucid character, rational and irrational fitted closely like the parts of a wooden puzzle ball I am desperately trying to disassemble to solve for some hidden x at the center before the virulent alien thing consumes the intricate space station.

This is not a CPTSD nightmare tied to some tangible and terrible life event, or the once persistent visitations in sleep by my ex, she of the 1,000 and many passive aggressive texts I saved in case we had to go to court to show I was not gaslighting and she was quite mad.

Lucid dreaming must be swell for the perfectly well adjusted who have never struggled in their sleep against something both realistically mechanistic and Lovecraftian evil on an intricate cinematic scale somewhere between Anderson and Fellini. 



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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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