April 2011
1 post
Real Estate - Richard Brautigan
corners:
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.
May 2010
1 post
“Ah,
you’re just a copy
of all the candy bars
I’ve ever eaten.”
– Richard Brautigan (“Xerox Candy Bar”) (via gilliansees)
February 2010
1 post
“Reduce emotional and intellectual noise until you reach the silence of yourself,...”
– Richard Brautigan
January 2010
1 post
September 2009
1 post
“It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
– Richard Brautigan (via liy)
August 2009
2 posts
Romeo and Juliet
If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat. If you will bring the soap, I will bring the bleach. —Richard Brautigan
I Live in the Twentieth Century
I live in the Twentieth Century and you lie here beside me. You were unhappy when you fell asleep. There was nothing I could do about it. I felt helpless. Your face is so beautiful that I cannot stop to describe it, and there’s nothing I can do to make you happy while you sleep.
- Richard Brautigan
July 2009
1 post
Just Because
Just because people love your mind, doesn’t mean they have to have your body, too. Richard Brautigan
June 2009
2 posts
Boo, Forever
Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
—Richard Brautigan
“I have been sitting at this desk for hours, staring into the darkened shelves of...”
– Richard Brautigan, The Abortion
May 2009
5 posts
Your Catfish Friend
If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It’s beautiful here by this pond.I wish somebody loved me,” I’d love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly...
“Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they’re
lined up for...”
– “-2” by Richard Brautigan
“The time is right to mix sentences
sentences with dirt and the sun
with...”
– Richard Brautigan
We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. — Richard Brautigan
“When you take your pill
it’s like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
...”
– The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
April 2009
1 post
“I love writing poetry but it’s taken time, like a difficult courtship that leads...”
– Richard Brautigan
March 2009
18 posts
Lint
I’m haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.
I’ve been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.
—Richard Brautigan
The First Winter Snow
Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped yourself in the wrong body. Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mammal nature. Three months ago you were like a deer staring at the first winter snow. Now Aphrodite thumbs her nose at you and tells stories behind your back
—Richard Brautigan
“I’m in a constant process of thinking about things. I’ll think about...”
– Richard Brautigan
The View from the Dog Tower
‘…three German Shepherd puppies wandered away from their home up near the County line.’ North County Journal Serving Northern Santa Cruz County
I have been thinking about this little item that I read in the North County Journal for a couple of months now. It contains the boundaries of a small tragedy. I know we are surrounded by so much blossoming horror in the world (Vietnam,...
“It’s time to train yourself
to sleep alone again
and it’s so fucking hard.”
– Richard Brautigan
Map Shower
For Marcia
I want your hair to cover me with maps of new places, so everywhere I go will be as beautiful as your hair
—Richard Brautigan
15%
she tries to get things out of men that she can’t get because she’s not 15% prettier
—Richard Brautigan
A Short Story about Contemporary Life in...
There are thousands of stories with original beginnings. This is not one of them. I think the only way to start a story about contemporary life in California is to do it the way Jack London started The Sea-Wolf. I have confidence in that beginning.
It worked in 1904 and it can work in 1969. I believe that beginning can reach across the decades and serve the purpose of this story because this is...
Richard Brautigan - A Chapter From In Watermelon...
I Live in the Twentieth Century I live in the Twentieth Century and you lie here beside me. You were unhappy when you fell asleep. there was nothing I could do about it. I felt helpless. Your face is so beautiful that I cannot stop to describe it, and there’s nothing I can do to make you happy while you sleep.
- Richard Brautigan
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of...”
– Richard Brautigan
It's Raining In Love by 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...
Women When They Put Their Clothes on in the Morning
It’s really a very beautiful exchange of values when women put their clothes on in the morning and she is brand-new and you’ve never seen her put her clothes on before. You’ve been lovers and you’ve slept together and there’s nothing more you can do about that, so it’s time for her to put her clothes on. Maybe you’ve already had breakfast and...
I was Trying to Describe You to Someone, by...
I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. You don’t look like any girl I’ve ever seen before. I couldn’t say “Well she looks just like Jane Fonda, except that she’s got red hair, and her mouth is different and of course, she’s not a movie star…” I couldn’t say that because you don’t look like Jane Fonda at all. I finally ended up describing you as a movie I saw when I was a child...
“All girls should have a poem
Written for them even if
we have to turn this...”
– Richard Brautigan
The Scarlatti Tilt
‘It’s very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s learning to play the violin.’ That’s what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
—Richard Brautigan
A Study in Californian Flowers
Oh, suddenly it’s nothing to see on the way and it’s nothing when I get there, and I’m in a coffee-house, listening to a woman talk who’s wearing more clothes than I have money in the world.
She is adorned in yellow and jewellery and a language that I cannot understand. She is talking about something that is of no importance, insisting on it. I can tell all this because the man who is with...