So Dramatic

after the garish movie
we share an icy drink;
a living experience,
with a little wry condescension.

stretching our backs, we illume:
a good story, a truly good story
exhausts the spirit, and
out of the dark shutters of experience,
lends one quietly to peace
and the Outside World,
peopled with activity.

on the tumbling aftercredits
with song, it makes things gladder
like an adjusting
of Gladys winged glasses,
to say, like a teaser, and smile:

i could act better than that...