Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

If you run/rush your way onto a crowded F train all sweaty and out of breath panting onto the people around you and you spy from just out of the corner of your drippy eye some vision of beauty one … Continue reading →

There will come a day, little fat boy, where you will tire of cowering under covers, of seeking shadows large enough to hide your prodigious frame and you might consider standing out stating your position proudly letting your enemies take … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking at the archives, reading some of the older material I’ve written over the earlier heartbreaks and, great gosh a’mighty, there were a lot of them. Strangely, most of the heartaches that were described in previous poems never … Continue reading →

Now that you mention it, I’m quite certain that it’s possible. I imagine it would be quite simple to strip down, get naked and aggressive, start singing show tunes or begin dancing a floppity jig. I could stop showering or … Continue reading →

Every mistake yields a story, right? So, at least, today will provide some good stories. Some excellent stories. Some world-changing, bone-shaking unwoke-awakening stories. Today’s the kind of day that will bear out epics, from which ballads will be writ, the … Continue reading →

"I hope that we will all live happily ever after & maintain our respective & due proportions while sucking gleefully our respective oranges." – Leo to Gertrude Stein, 1912 Just so we’re on the same page when I offered to … Continue reading →

It is imperative that you never read this vital that you never know these ridiculous embarrassing harmful ramblings ranging through my head. They must not escape me and attach memetically to you or anyone else while I can help it. … Continue reading →

Oh, for god’s sake… Hey, shithead! Who the fuck do you think you are, telling me I don’t have to be scared if I don’t want to be? Like, like my personality and defining characteristics are just hats I choose … Continue reading →

Hey. Hey, kid: With the straight back and the frequent blink. You all right? You alone? Come over. Cop a seat. Everything OK? Be honest. Doesn’t matter to me much either way. I’m just wondering stranger to stranger out here … Continue reading →

I don’t know if I’ve ever said this before but you are very much shorter than me. I just thought it should be said. I’m not laying judgment and I’m not suggesting a solution and I’m not even suggesting a … Continue reading →