To: The Algorithms
Re: Mary Oliver
Yes I love poetry
and Mary Oliver
writes lovely poems–
really, she does–
but constantly popping
her up on my timeline
is an algorithmic misfire,
like suggesting I try
relaxation breathing
in the kitchen as I make
a calming cup of herbal tea
watching the butterflies
in the flowers outside
while the house is on fire,
kitchen filling with smoke,
after I just cancelled
the newly privatized
fire department
to pay for groceries.
This Is NOT Fine
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, Trampoline, Unlikely Stories, Peauxdunque Review, LMNL Anthology, 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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Well Bottom Blues 
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