Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Did you Amber Heard your bed again?

Did you Amber Heard your bed again?
I heard the woman yell to her child upstairs.
She didn’t like to swear.

The kid was balling.
I couldn’t tell if it was from being in trouble
or because he had to be Amber Heard.

Into the bathroom!, I heard her demand.
In that angry mother voice 
that could be used as paint stripper 
in a pinch.

Clunking pipes in the wall.
That sudden rush from a running shower.

If she starts stripping the bed,
I’m out of here, I thought.

The kid already had a father off somewhere.
Probably passing bad cheques and kidney stones
with equal vigour.

The beer was warm as piss.
What the hell was it with this place
and bodily fluids?

I decided right there, that I must have
been a stunt man in a past life.

The kitchen table sitting there in front of me.
Like a line of 27 burning cars waiting 
for me to try jump over them.

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