Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

I let the dogs off the leash so they could run as fast as they wanted while I biked alongside them in my industrial neighborhood. If I did it early in the morning or late at night there wouldn’t be … Continue reading →

Just because the gauntlet is thrown doesn’t mean you have to rise to the bait. Just because you have been dared doesn’t mean you have to accept it. Just because there’s been a challenge you don’t have to take it. … Continue reading →

I think when I accomplished my greatest poetical feat (I wrote over 465 different pieces in April, 2009 {don’t ask me how many of them were any good}), I was in the process of trying to attempt to impress a … Continue reading →

You’re looking down. Know I’m around and that I’m here. If you’ve got troubles I’ll be with you, never fear, Is something wrong? If there’s a problem, I can help. I’ll be supportive and not treat you like a whelp. … Continue reading →

Today I checked out the estate. It is large, as expected. It is strange, as expected. There was a staff, as one would anticipate on a property of size. There were the unsurprising freeloaders both in the house and surrounding … Continue reading →

You wait on the line and you wonder who you have become. You never used to wait on lines. You were beyond such things yet now here you are standing here like a fucking drone. These new flavors had better … Continue reading →

When were you last in a place like this: a gigantic, rocking, aching, smelly construction trawling across the water? Has it been a year? Has it been ten? Good gods, has it been ten? You think you might not have … Continue reading →

I remember it like it was thirty years ago: I was at UCLA for the summer and Big Daddy was playing at a music store but one of my cohort needed a ride to the airport. No problem. I could … Continue reading →

Things are changing over here in the Casa. You’d hardly recognize me right about now. I’m not yet twice the man I used to be but I’m getting there. I am learning to accelerate my abilities to their maximum capacity. … Continue reading →

You can hear yourselfin other’s stilted slurred speech after hours in the squall of the night. You are afraid how much you parrot these sounds you’re hearing and don’t want to repeat these behaviors any further. You sound embarrassing in … Continue reading →