Missed Connections: I RECENTLY STARTED TO LOVE MYSELF AND IT’S PRETTY GREAT by Shawn Berman

There is so much to love about this poem, so much to love about you! We love you! Enjoy the magic.

good morning, there’s a giant black hole swirling around in the galactic sphere and you’re the appetizer

so if that doesn’t give you a reason to get outta bed

and swallow your enemies whole,

then nothing will.

anyway,

i hope that didn’t scare you

and

i’m pretty sorry about everything lately

but sometimes you just have to accept that the world doesn’t have a plan for you

and if you think that’s odd, well

i think it is too

because i  can’t explain why i get along better with strangers,

why i  want to kiss everyone i pass on the street

and tell them my biggest secrets

just so they can say they learned something new.

but whatever,

my caffeine addiction is increasing my social anxiety problem but

google says it’s normal so

please don’t worry

and stay tuned for more breaking news.

breaking news:

i can sleep next to a warm body and feel 100% in love

or i can sleep next to a warm body and feel like everything is overrated because i am  unsure how to process dopamine/

i am unsure what to do when the sun starts to set,

and we have to pretend that liking the same netflix shows makes us romantically compatible

even though your presence makes me want to dig a hole

three cherry fields wide

and stand inside it

until the clouds come crashing down on my head/

until the clouds come crashing down on my head

and i wake up in your arms

engulfed in your lagoon,

wondering how long

the satisfaction of your cold hands playing with my hair

will keep me satisfied/

wondering if e really equals

you and me running away together to some remote location with no postal code

living happily ever after for weeks at a time

until we realize everything is stupid

and coconut water really isn’t that healthy

and the sugar from it rots our flesh from the inside out.

good morning.

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Shawn Berman is a warm beer. Shawn Berman is a strip club on a Monday afternoon. Shawn Berman is Leonardo DiCaprio’s stuntman. Shawn Berman has work featured in Drunk Monkeys, tNY, Maudlin House, and Potluck Magazine. Shawn Berman can be followed on Twitter @ramonbermanez

 

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