Revenge of the Lawn

Real Estate - Richard Brautigan

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.