Rick BerlininSmallworshipping warreni used to sit in warren’s room at saybrook college (yale), a fire in the fireplace. we would drink and drink and drink. he was a sort of…Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallgiving up on ‘god’how do these things happen? the moment we fall (or rise) in love? i don’t think it’s ever said. not right off. those three words. maybe…Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020
Rick Berlinmike’s prayer‘Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe.’ — D. H. Lawrence Lady…Sep 22, 2020Sep 22, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallthe roofmay be the only place you can find infinity in a city — the big dome sky, clay soft tar under bare feet, vertiginous ledge to piss over, a…Sep 20, 2020Sep 20, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallplum boyeating another diarrhetic breakfast on a quiet Sunday i see him with his friends. he’s a geek. they’re all geeks at his table. geeks are…Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallfalse endings‘how can a thing so perfectly ended, continue?’ is what Peter Barrett said in a spoken word intro to Love Is Not Enough, the Orchestra…Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallassbecause you sit on it for hours, it is rarely clean or smooth or pretty. ass topography is speckled with pimply red bed-bug like dots and…Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallthe switchromantic love, is it for-real possible without devolving into George and Martha, into the black rain of the operatic? each of us has our…Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallpool hoppingbeauty, we never forget it. the real-time imprint on the heart of object, music, person is a Vasco da Gama love fountain. no photograph or…Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020
Rick BerlininSmallpiss etiquettethe men’s room is wall-to-wall dudes. i can’t hold it another second. i sneak into the ladies’ room. it’s empty. it’s not what i’m used to…Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020