I mean: Can you forgive yourself / all
those crimes without victims?

request: poems about appearing strong or hiding weakness?

Sam likes to say, "Ah, great expectations!"
at least three or four times in every
conversation. He is twelve years old.
Nobody knows what he is talking about when
he says it. Sometimes it makes people
feel uncomfortable.

Beautiful by Richard Brautigan ( Read more... )

Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have a poem about being in a relationship and trying to make things work/ getting through hard times together, etc? Thanks in advance!

and in exchange:

Richard Brautigan - All Secrets Of Past Tense Have Just Come My Way
All secrets of past tense have just come my way,
but I still don't know what I'm going to do next

Real Estate

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 

I hate to be this person, but I am going through a terrible breakup of a three-year relationship and I would love poetry to make me feel better. Any poetry! Poetry about love, loss, breakups - or just poetry you read when you're having a tough time, poetry that cheers you up, anything. I know this is rather general but if you can't ask your ( Read more... )

Boo, Forever
Richard Brautigan

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.

The Beautiful Poem
by Richard Brautigan

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few monents ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.

3 A.M.
January 15, 1967

The moon versus us ever sleeping together again
by Richard Brautigan

I sit here, an arch-villain of romance,
thinking about you. Gee, I'm sorry
I made you unhappy, but there was nothing
I could do about it because I have to be free.
Perhaps everything would have been different
if you had stayed at the table or asked me
to go out with you to look at the ( Read more... )

if i should die before you do
Richard Brautigan

When

you wake up

from death,

you will find yourself

in my arms,

and

I will be

kissing you,

and

I

will be crying.