No, I Am Not a Bestseller by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

She found out I wrote sometimes
and asked me if I was a best seller
even though I was wearing that same German
army surplus jacket I had been sporting
for the last twenty years.
She told me she worked in real-estate
and I asked her if she was a best seller,
if her clients just paid her commission off the books
in blood diamonds, how the Fortune 500 was doing these days?
She seemed confused, did not want an autograph anymore.
I was a very mean man now,
though she could never tell you why.
Just made her feel that way.
Like the thought of global warming.

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.