How do I turn on Airplane Mode
for the world? They turn off
the waiting room TV when I ask
but someone comes out later,
says, “We have to leave it on.”
Breathless correspondents
hiss a frothy espresso of
won’t know ‘til the polls close
I expressly did not ask for.
I don’t need a fasting
no caffeine no nicotine
twitchy fluorescent lit
too early morning live shot
in front of a gas station
to tell me the world is going
to hell in a shopping cart.
Just draw my damn blood
before I end up perp walk
shocking incident film at 11.
Airplane Mode
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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