Kids. by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

He asked me if I had kids

and I told him they frowned upon that

in prison, and for good reason.

Even just pictures on your computer,

I warned him to be careful.

Kids of your own, he said

with much exasperation.

That’s incest,

I said.

I don’t think we should talk

to each other anymore.

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, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Dope Fiend Daily and In Between Hangovers.