Misha Berson — The Monarch Review
MONTY – Misha Berson
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 18:40 — 1 Comment
When I consider how I got into the daunting business of running a women’s health clinic where abortions are often performed, I think of Monty. Her given name was Montgomery, bestowed on her by parents who wanted a son and chose to name their daughter after a great-uncle. But since her peers in kindergarten couldn’t articulate all four syllables, she was Monty from age five on. Monty came to San Francisco from a mid-sized rural town in Ohio, where her family had lived for several generations – something unimaginable to me, an urban child of immigrants. They were church-y people […]
The virus doesn’t care – Misha Berson
Friday, August 21, 2020 11:50 — 0 Comments
“Gravity is just a theory. You can go ahead and walk out a second-story window because gravity is a theory. The virus doesn’t care what you believe.” Dr. Tom Benzoni, quoted in The Des Moines Register, June 23, 2020 The virus doesn’t care. The virus doesn’t care if you are wearing a green dress of vapors, or blue shoes made of peanut brittle, or a crown of feathers. The virus doesn’t care what your name is, or your address, or whether you sleep on silk sheets or on the sidewalk. It doesn’t care about what you want for your […]
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
