Getting Word. by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

I get word

that another old friend

had died

drugs again

when you never had many friends

these things add up

no one discovered him for over a week

the mother is inconsolable

I don’t raise a glass anymore

there is nothing to

celebrate

not life or death

or anything

just these simple black keys

here beside me

bashing the next one

out.

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, The Rye Whiskey Review, Outlaw Poetry Network, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Dope Fiend Daily and In Between Hangovers.