Bomb Scare by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

He smiled at me 

and I could tell by the way he smiled

that there was a bomb planted

in my esophagus,

probably while I slept

the room key passed along 

by spooks and well placed sympathizers

and so we shook hands firmly

and talked for some minutes

in the hall by the elevator,

agreeing to meet up

for dinner,         

then I went back to my room

locked the door behind me

and sat in the dark

bent over the cold off white porcelain

with finger down 

throat                    

I started

purging.






Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his other half and mounds of snow.  His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Word Riot, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.