Needs

Abstract

Needs S. C. Flynn (bio) At eight in the morning the city exhales its gritty breathlaced with the odour of standing rubbishand lagered dew dripping down walls.Outside my front door, I become awarewhile walking the semiotic streets of so many needsI didn't know I had last night. They call from billboardsand shout from the sides of buses,their sound and colours blurring with the Doppler Shift.When I reach the Tube station, I feel so inferiorto the people in the advertisementswith their perfect lives that I shrink inside the train.The leaves of a tree delight us more than the roots. [End Page 110] S. C. Flynn S. C. Flynn was born in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His first chapbook was published by Acumen Publications in the United Kingdom, and four others have followed. His poetry has been published in various countries, including the United States, Ireland, Croatia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Spain, and Italy, and recently in the following journals, newspapers, and anthologies: A New Ulster, Bealtaine, Beir Bua, Cyphers, Drawn to the Light, Dreich, Ecozona, Lamar University Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrigal, Mercurius, Neuro Logical, Obsessed with Pipework, SurVision, The Blue Nib, The Ecological Citizen, The Galway Review, The Roscommon Herald, Tir na Nóg, Trasna, and ZiN Daily. Copyright © 2022 Wayne State University Press