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…3 min read·Sep 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…2 min read·Sep 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…2 min read·Sep 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…3 min read·Sep 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…3 min read·Sep 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…3 min read·Sep 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…3 min read·Sep 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…5 min read·Sep 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…3 min read·Sep 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…4 min read·Sep 14, 2020----