I Want You To Be Happy Andrew Lambirth · You must never speak

· You must never speak to strangers on the train

when we've all been standing in front of our kitchen shelves

Yet through every step

her mother suffering from mental illness

commanding poet

I Want You To Be Happy Andrew Lambirth · You must never speakChuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat a world away from Joey's cramped house share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey's imagining