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Ryan Quinn Flanagan
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Pro-life Poem
Office illumination
perched on the incandescent
desk lamp precipice
talked down from jumping
by the janitorial
services
there are things to live for:
industrial vacuums in the dark
Memphis barbecue
pool skimmers with lizards living
in them…
The higher learning of schools
of fish.
And do not forget the sacrifice of aging stairwells.
Anything that goes down on office buildings
is fine in my books.
Creaky with arthritis.
The stapler joining paper in bent
matrimony.
While the garbage is emptied of its daily guts
so we can start again.
Picking at the Scabbard
Jubilant
let’s celebrate
a first class page
turner
rosy Renoir asthmatics
in line for the
puffer
confetti
streamers
euphoric placards
in colour
stone driveways
long as old hatreds
and just as intractable
by the sword
for the sword
so good to finally
meet you.
The only attempts on my life
have been made by me,
but there is still
time.
Now tell me a little bit about
yourself.
RYAN QUINN FLANAGAN is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Our Poetry Archive, Setu, Literary Yard, and The Oklahoma Review. His personal website is: http://ryanquinnflanagan.yolasite.com/
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