Order Up
These two masked men barged in
and blasted everyone.
Before fleeing on foot.
It was over in seconds.
The restaurant now completely quiet.
The kid in the kitchen was in shock.
Just kept cooking food and filling the orders.
Ringing that little silver bell
before mechanically grabbing the next ticket
and starting all over again.
©2023 Ryan Quinn Flanagan All rights reserved.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cajun Mutt Press, Dumpster Fire Press, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.