Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

I am dying but I will make it through this night unlike the boy who crossed the Hustlers and left a chalk outline outside our door so Emily insists on dragging me from my sickbed out into a cab and … Continue reading →

Everyone’s trying to remind me about the special occasion – just alarm after alarm on my all my devices beeping minute after moment with signifiers displayed on every banner I can see. I don’t know why the world is making … Continue reading →

I gotta say, kiddo, I don’t get it. You guys were so close. Back in the days, it was like you would never do anything apart but now I see her coming over and you don’t ever look her way … Continue reading →

Four out of five. Eighty percent. That’s as much as you have offered in the statistically measured recent past. It’s not bad. It’s passing. You’ve made some effort, I’ll allow that. You’ve tried. You’ve done something. You’ve put in some … Continue reading →

I never listened to what you had to say because you always said too much. There was just such noise around you and I couldn’t really hear anything. I never listened to what you had to say because you were … Continue reading →

I hadn’t realized before about your teeth. I guess I hadn’t checked them so closely before, noticed their imperfections, seen the work that was needed – and why would I? What situation would have allowed me to separate your lips … Continue reading →

I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else. Someone handsomer. Someone better. I think you’ve confused me with someone else that you know that you like someone that you have a deeper relationship with. Someone that’s not me. I don’t … Continue reading →

This is transient, remember. It’s gonna go away like it always does every single time you feel this way. The sharp hurt, the dull ache it all disappears eventually dispersed into disarray. You may even see value in taking pleasure … Continue reading →

I heard he’s gone after seeing him so recently after not seeing him for quite so long. He came and went like sheet in a gust resting as needed, gone as he must. I lack all the details and wish … Continue reading →

This day. This experience. Those animal crackers and how they have caused us to be kicked out of bed in such an innovating and surprising way. Wow. Every time I think you couldn’t possibly disappoint me any more I realize … Continue reading →