Workout

this girl
once said
there was a
great sadness
to my look,

that
I did not hide
my misery so
well,

that there was
a heaviness to each
tired expression

as though
I were lifting
weights

with my
face.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian born author presently residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario Canada. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as The New York Quarterly, Windsor Review, Vallum, The Antigonish Review, CV2, Horror Sleaze Trash, Evergreen Review, Your One Phone Call and In Between Hangovers.