PERFECT DAY FOR RAMEN ❋ Emma Orlow

To be clear: I’m writing this not because
I am in love with you
but because you had
a car and I love that in a man
because I failed my driver’s test twice and you were
the parking lot
movie set of me
to the throat of Lou Reed
one of five cassettes you had to choose from
after we finished you said:
“it’s weird, ’cause this song is about heroin”
my best friends were waiting
in the ramen place with the graffiti-printed
snapbacks
I wondered if they had seen the seatbelts
and thought Emma has been kidnapped
by a stranger she might actually get along with.