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[vachepissant]

Richard Brautigan
"It's Raining In Love"

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 asnwers
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.