{"id":837,"date":"2010-07-05T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=837"},"modified":"2010-07-05T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T21:36:10","slug":"ryan-quinn-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2010\/07\/ryan-quinn-flanagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Quinn Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time
\nwhen the world would not stop exploding,
\nbig bang adolescence in the wet dream denim
\nof modernity,
\nthere was a time when the centre of the universe
\nwas only a 90 minute drive from JFK
\nand 222, West 23rd St. (between Seventh and Eight Avenue)
\nwas the place to be.
\nDylan in room #205
\nwith eighteen shots of whiskey lined up
\ntrying to channel the ghost of Dylan Thomas,
\nLeonard in room #424
\nwith Janis just down the hall in room #411
\nlooking for lovers under the unmade bed
\nand in the outstretched arms of Southern Comfort,
\nNancy on the bathroom linoleum of room #100
\nwhile Sid was out,
\nJimi and Jim lost in the ten story hubris
\nof top 40 gods
\nand poppers in the lift,
\nwhere Mark Twain
\nand Arthur Miller once got lost in the inkwell
\nand Thomas Wolfe realized you can\u2019t go home<\/em>,
\nJane Fonda,
\nJackson Pollock,
\nBrendan Behan,
\nSarah Bernhardt,
\nthere was a time when the energy of the ages
\ncollected under one roof,
\nin 400 rooms with no vacuum cleaners,
\nwhere optimism was a pseudo-science
\nand the short stems of Aquarius
\nburned at both ends,
\nthere was a time when the idiot savant domicile
\nof Youth
\neschewed sterility,
\nwhen the sixties stumbled into the Chelsea <\/em>
\nwith young, bloodshot eyes<\/em>
\nand screamed…
\n <\/em>
\nBut everything is old now.
\nDead as a doornail.
\nA wheezing asthmatic\u2019s paradise.
\nLacking vitality
\nand soul.
\n <\/em>
\nThere was a time when anything goes
\nmeant just that\u2026
\n<\/em>
\nNow,
\nyou can\u2019t even smoke in the lobby.<\/p>\n

Ryan Quinn Flanagan presently resides in Elliot Lake, Ontario,Canada. He is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent entitled <\/em>Pigeon Theatre (JTI Press). His work has recently appeared in <\/em>The New York Quarterly, <\/em>Red\u00a0Fez, Zygote in my Coffee, <\/em>Word Riot, Poems-For-All, Quills, and The Antigonish Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea There was a time when the world would not stop exploding, big bang adolescence in the wet dream denim of modernity, there was a time when the centre of the universe was only a 90 minute drive from JFK and 222, West 23rd St. (between Seventh and Eight Avenue) was the place to be. 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