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Update #11: Mush
I am falling off of reality again. The skeleton of being human is turning into mush. It’s an avalanche of sorts. I am here in London – transported. I was in the middle of a crisis, and now I am here in London. I am in a completely different reality. I am trying to find…
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Crazy for Loving You
By Sammy Ginsberg Sitting in the center of Huddersfield on a bench listening to a busker and watching life go by. If anyone knew that a girl who grew up in Calabasas, starred in Trainspotting 2, and had three nipples was sitting on a bench where King Street hits New Street, they would say, “What…
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Buy the Cow
By Sammy Ginsberg For most of the female existence, the value of a woman has always been defined by her relationship to man. In Genesis, “Lord God made a woman from the rib”. For eating the apple after being tricked by the serpent, her curse is “[her] desire will be for [her] husband, and he…
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Nod and Smile
By Sammy Ginsberg “I’m really looking forward to the next Marvel film, the suspense!” I asked a bar-lad at a pub in Teignmouth what he was looking forward to in April, and this was his response. The first word that popped into my head was, “Sheep” but I repressed it. “So how long have you…
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Never Ever Getting a Boyfriend Ever Again Ever
By Sammy Ginsberg I’m never going to have another boyfriend because in order to have a boyfriend, I have to be a girlfriend, and I don’t want to be a girlfriend. I don’t want to be girlfriend material. According to the Literary Pixie Dictionary, girlfriend material means “a heterosexual female possessing those traits and characteristics…
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He Could Be #6
By Sammy Ginsberg Oh how sad, as I sat at a conference,thinking this is it, and he’d be there –realizing the crisis of my career,he was making the executive decisionthat our relationship was over.He came over at 6pm – early, on the dot.An ambush it felt, not bothering to make small talk,needing to unburden himself,…
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He Could Be #5
By Sammy Ginsberg He’s starting a startup and I’mhis startup girlfriend.He’s at work til 10pm every night and I’mhis startup girlfriend.He’s worried he can’t give me as much of his brain as I deserve and I’mhis startup girlfriend.He’s telling me it’s always going to be like this, more power, more money, more responsibility, and I’mhis…
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He Could Be #4
By Sammy Ginsberg but now he is,he is my boyfriendand I am his girlfriend.It has been two months,yesterday exactly! since we met,and started dating.Oh how smooth and fast it has moved,slippedI didn’t realize there was space for him,until he was there,and now, now he’s like ivy on me,and i am ivy in – wrapping and…
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He Could Be #3
By Sammy Ginsberg I must tell you this, but I really really like himsuch a calm,how crazy this is – he stayed over last night(again) such dreams,of those days before – of feeling objecta fear to speak, going on a datebut not wanting to date,but being afraid to say that to forbid intimacy(though I know…
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He Could Be #2
By Sammy Ginsberg darling you need to say nohow the world whirls in your headround and round like a crown,buzzing with should be could be would bedon’t want to let them down, let them downbut in the actletting myself down.Oh I should have said no yesterday-should have said see you Tuesday,but now I’m just tired!…