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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 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.

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n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”



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