MIGHT MESS AROUND AND CONFESS MY LOVE TO YOU IN THE POURING RAIN ON A COLD FALL NIGHT

Shawn Berman

lol but this isn’t some big budget netflix romcom starring jake gyllenhaal-emma stone

and i can’t afford to be out in inclement weather without

health insurance these days

especially after my covid layoff—

that’s just plain crazy.

instead

i’ll probably play it safe

shoot you a last minute cancelation text

make a pot of trader joe’s sumatra

and furiously scour the facebook marketplace

until i find something that will make me happy for about .01 seconds,

like the elusive big stuff oreo that was discontinued in ‘91, even though its 10x circumference was a thing of beauty.

i know this isn’t a healthy way to approach life, but serotonin is a sugar-coated drug that i desperately need these days and i’ll do anything to get my lil’ fix.

besides it’s not like i’m out here getting super financially invested in hobbies in order to distract my depression only to drop said hobbies a week later for another one that’ll probably suffer the same fate.

oh wait.

i’m doing that too.

like subscribe and share my youtube page if you wanna see more of my skating tricks.

i’m thiiiis close to perfecting an ollie. watch out, punks.

Shawn Berman runs The Daily Drunk. Some of his work has appeared in Hobart, Maudlin House, and Drunk Monkeys. @sbb_writer.