Steam Punk with Muskets
albeit
albeit
albeit
the Napoleonic wars
were steam punk
with muskets
bottled water at Waterloo
rehydrating all the concert
goers
I lost my virginity early
got in there before Microsoft
had a stranglehold on
orgasms
fingered whole guitar shops
into three chord love
for Captain Beefheart
and early Zeppelin
on the march
back out of Russia
I
wept.
Bottles of Reindeer
sit boy stand
en garde
bottle reindeer
libretto harpoons
for microfiche
outings
Iran on a rooftop
in Yonkers
I am impervious,
guess my weight
stand man sit
at ease
bottomless pits
can count themselves
lucky
continuum with phone number
keeps ringing
off the hook
off the schneid
bottles of reindeer
from bottomless
Yonkers.
BIO
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, Angry Old Man Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
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