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All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.Richard Brautigan
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I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.Richard Brautigan
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Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams.Richard Brautigan
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Our names were made for us in another century.Richard Brautigan
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Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.Richard Brautigan
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The Beautiful Poem"I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penisaffectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes mefeel beautiful.Richard Brautigan
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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.Richard Brautigan
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Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.Richard Brautigan
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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.Richard Brautigan
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For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.Richard Brautigan
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Messy, isn't it?Richard Brautigan
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Moonlight drifts from over A hundred thousand miles To fall upon a cemetery It reads a hundred epitaphs And then smiles at a nest of Baby owlsRichard Brautigan
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Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming homeRichard Brautigan
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The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star. I don't know if things like that are fair or not.Richard Brautigan
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There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.Richard Brautigan
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My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, stringy kind of thing and swirled out like a falling star, and I saw a dead fish come forward and float into my sperm, bending it in the middle.Richard Brautigan
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30 cents, two transfers, love Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.Richard Brautigan
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She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.Richard Brautigan
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The sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently before.you have put a circle of castlesaround my penis and you swirl themlike sunlight on the wings of birds.Richard Brautigan
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We walked back to i D E A T H, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.Richard Brautigan
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I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.Richard Brautigan
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.Richard Brautigan