Revenge of the Lawn

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Real Estate - Richard Brautigan

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. 

[gilliansze]

Ah, you’re just a copy of all the candy bars I’ve ever eaten.

Richard Brautigan (“Xerox Candy Bar”) (via gilliansees)

[yesyes]

Reduce emotional and intellectual noise until you reach the silence of yourself, and listen to it.

Richard Brautigan

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[brautigan]

--Richard Brautigan

[liy]

It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Richard Brautigan (via liy)

[brautigan]

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

[buyhercandy]

I Live in the Twentieth Century

[brautigan]

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

[brautigan]

Just Because

Just because people love your mind, doesn’t mean they have to have your body, too. Richard Brautigan

[brautigan]

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

[flourhoneyandmilk]

I have been sitting at this desk for hours, staring into the darkened shelves of books. I love their presence, the way they honor the wood they rest upon.

Richard Brautigan, The Abortion

[amandoline]

Your Catfish Friend

[brautigan]

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 you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond?It seems like a perfect place for them.” Richard Brautigan

[fatsy]

Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.

“-2” by Richard Brautigan

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The time is right to mix sentences sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and the rain with verbs, and for worms to pass through question marks, and the stars to shine down on budding nouns, and the dew to form on paragraphs.

Richard Brautigan

[brautigan]

We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. -- Richard Brautigan

[nneighbour]

When you take your pill it’s like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside of you.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan

[buyhercandy]

I love writing poetry but it’s taken time, like a difficult courtship that leads to a good marriage, for us to get to know each other. I wrote poetry for seven years to learn how to write a sentence because I really wanted to write novels and I figured that I couldn’t write a novel until I could write a sentence.

Richard Brautigan

[brautigan]

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