Josh Orkin

to be read and remembered

so she's telling me  

about her work after finishing film 

school now she produces daytime

television (my words), chinese dramas (hers) 

aired in the evenings, not the day

she informs me but i'm too drunk 

and she's cute and i can't help myself 

i start in on "but wouldn't you rather

produce films" and doing something great

and being remembered and making

art and creating beauty and i'm losing 

her but i can't help myself i'm falling 

down into it again and she couldn't care 

less, she likes her work producing daytime

(my words) and i am boring her and maybe

i am boring you too so forgive me 

for blathering on, i have no drinks in me now

just a hangover and a pureness 

of purpose.