Ryan Quinn Flanagan

We drive down to the city
to see this band
that killed it in the Motor City
over a year ago

at Massey Hall
and they lay
an egg

the energy is not there
the individual band members
seem to be doing their own thing
at times,

but I have perspective,
even electricity has
an off night

so that when I say I was disappointed
my wife says she was waiting for me to say it,
but I tell her dinner was good
and the trip back to my father’s place
was affordable,

and the simple way we fall asleep fast
in the guest bedroom
with many spiders

is worth the price
of admission.