Richard Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – September 14, 1984 / Tacoma, Washington)
Poems by Richard Brautigan : 22 / 64
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.
Richard Brautigan
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
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Poems by Richard Brautigan : 22 / 64
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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,
its 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.
Whoever posted this left 80% of the poem out. This should be taken down.
This is an incomplete piece.