Red Ties by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

John Nash noticed
a preponderance of red ties
on the MIT campus
believing he had uncovered
a secret Communist society
that communicated through
their red ties

and later he snuck around
in red sneakers
leaving tiny intricate equations
on classroom blackboards

students took to calling him
“The Phantom”
which seems like a really cool name
to have if you need to have
a name at all.

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, Under The Bleachers, The Dope Fiend Daily and In Between Hangovers.