Posts tagged Richard Brautigan

whitemystere:

I have emotions
that are like newspapers that
     read themselves.

I go for days at a time
trapped in the want ads.

I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:

     18 rooms
     $37,000
     I’m yours
     ghosts and all.

                    Tokyo
                    June 2, 1976

Richard Brautigan

I don’t know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
     a lot. 

It makes me nervous.
I don’t say the right things
or perhaps I start
     to examine,
          evaluate,
               compute
     what I am saying. 

If I say, “Do you think it’s going to rain?”
and she says, “I don’t know,”
I start thinking: Does she really like me? 

In other words
I get a little creepy. 

A friend of mine once said,
“It’s twenty times better to be friends
     with someone
than it is to be in love with them.” 

I think he’s right and besides,
it’s raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
     That’s all taken care of. 

               BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
“Do you think it’s going to rain?”
and I say, “It beats me,”
and she says, “Oh,”
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky
I think: Thank God, it’s you, baby, this time
     instead of me.

-Richard Brautigan

(Source: thestonestomach)