America
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No “Just War.” Just War.
I went up to a panelist at New Orleans Poetry Festival to ask her for a book Plan/K about the golden age of piracy was still in print and explain my worldview is equal parts Pynchons Gravity’s Rainbow and David Graeber. That cascaded from Pynchon into wondering how much of the world of 1984 was… Continue reading
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Understanding P@l€st1ne
As Trump and Netenyahu plot the harvest of their fruits from the Palestinian genocide, I want you to help you understand the Palestinian point of view. Forget what any God said; the gods of indigenous Americans promised them the North American continent. This was a purely geo-political transaction to plant the West’s flag in the… Continue reading
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This is me, is us
The Challenger shuttle, the first Gulf War, 9/11, the second Gulf War, COVID, Trump. These were universal or near universal cataclysms that shaped generations. This quote is me, is us, in the middle 1960s, facing the lurking horrors we were schooled to, watching fire fights on the news in black and white while somewhere in… Continue reading
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OBEY
RESIST. Continue reading
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Minneapolis is MAGAmerica’s Kristallnacht.
Minneapolis is MAGAmerica’s Kristallnacht. [Copied from a Friends-Only, non-shareable Facebook post removing PII.] From someone in Minneapolis who has to remain anonymous, for reasons that are pretty clear. —————— I have had several of you from out of state ask about us, and I will tell you things are FAR WORSE than anything the mainstream… Continue reading
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Morning is Broken
is the No. 1 hymn in this hellwhere the news scrolls bylike sandpaper on the soul.Wars and rumors of warearthquakes, snakes andprivate aeroplanes.You should be afraidof the one-sided (so far)civil war against dissent.The only way out is througha cordon of soulless thugsbent on ending the non-compliant, to paint a newAmerican Dream in bloodfor the White… Continue reading
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Falling Behind the New Iron Curtain
Trump is lowering the new Iron Curtain around the us as a dictatorial, pariah state. The civilized nations of the world need to first contain it; second to try to topple it. We need to do our part toward regime change if we chose not to leave for what remains of the free world, and… Continue reading
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The Coming Troubles
Kristi Noem appearing behind a podium sign “One of ours All of yours” is an open threat to kill protestors. That statement is associated with the Nazi policy of murdering an entire village if one person committed an act of violent, active resistance. If an ICE agent is injured or killed I don’t expect the… Continue reading
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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Well Bottom Blues 