Ritchie Rich & the Subway Pulse
You can’t get anywhere
without the underground
these days
and here comes Ritchie Rich
in metal face stud
and green garbage bag ensemble,
counting rats large as block parties,
feeling the subway pulse,
that joyous skip in his step
so that the suits push each other
to get out of his way,
the smell of fake Cubans from
the busy bee newsstand –
CONGRATULATIONS!
shouts Ritchie Rich with his
arms and legs wide open;
everyone is alive and the train
is on its way, even if you can’t
hear it yet.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Fixator Press, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
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