ilovedyoutoabstraction

Philosophy should stop


at midnight like the buses.

Imagine Nietzsche, Jesus

and Bertrand Russell parked

in the silent car barns.

GEE YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN

Oh Marcia,

I want your long blonde beauty

to be taught in high school,

so kids will learn that God

lives like music in the skin

and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord.

I want high school report cards to look like this:

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. I used poetry as a lover but I never made her my old lady. . . . I tried to write poetry that would get at some of the hard things in my life that needed talking about but those things you can only tell your old lady.

_Richard Brautigan 1971