Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

UNHEALTHY How has this lasted? How did I get so sick for so many days? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have this cold or these symptoms or a broken week of work. I am so far from … Continue reading →

GOO GOO DOLLS AND PRINCE I have tried – God knows I have tried to be the man that you deserve. I have tried to earn your devotion your appreciation and, dammit, some emotions from you. I have failed. I … Continue reading →

SUCH MAGNIFICENT FRUIT It is said that when they met at the Purple Mansion long after their collaboration had borne such magnificent fruit, Prince disavowed Sinead’s greatest hit and kept her prisoner in his home for crimes unclear. He didn’t … Continue reading →

AT PUSSYCAT SUITE The stripper next door was in the army before her more recent occupation. She was a middle child and loved to dance growing up so her current career choice may be a step in the right direction. … Continue reading →

ANY IMAGINARIA Prince Rogers, in one of his greatest works, spoke of his childhood and his friendships and a girl and the magic she would find when she opened her lunchbox She would find coffee, syrup, butterscotch jam and the … Continue reading →

IN THE TEMPLE The guy who snuck Into my desk and rifled through my files and discovered the location of the folder that held my poems and edited then removing the profanity and increasing the romanticity and sending them to … Continue reading →

BINGE God DAMN, woman, you’re as fine as nothing I’ve ever seen before. I want you. I love you. I love you so much I wanna purée you and drink you as my morning smoothee. I wanna grate your skin … Continue reading →

BECOME WHAT YOU ARE I hope your quest goes well. I hope you find what you seek out there (wherever ‘there’ is) as you sweat and search for the thing that was missing. I hope it is a successful scouring … Continue reading →