If there's popcorn to crunch, beverage to course through a straw like cheap emotion, then the feature, the voice of a leading man might compel his love a love that's scripted, delivered pitch perfect in one, two, ten takes. Deep in Tinseltown, a screen test shuts down. But you, the camera loves you. It just drinks you up. To the sound, the splash of a coming attraction, the dim lights fade.
Hungry fingers dig in, raising yellow petals.
My bag it's half full. And like the stranger one seat away, I drink from a cup half-empty. Steven Cordova was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.