By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
The message
that came through back channels
was clear.
There will be a girl with a yellow tulip,
pretending to listen to music.
A single yellow tulip,
no other number or colour.
You will sit down,
share some light banter
before passing along
the information.
Then you will walk three blocks East
to a basement bookshop
in the village.
Ask the proprietor
if he has any Victor Hugo
on loan.
Before heading back home
and returning to your life.
Watering the plants in the window.
Fighting with the chain on the back
of the toilet
until one or both of you
have been pacified.
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, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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