Your Catfish Friend

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge of my affection
and think, “It’s beautiful
here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,”
I’d love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be at peace,
and ask yourself, “I wonder
if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them.”

Richard Brautigan

A Good-Talking Candle

I had a good-talking candle
last night in my bedroom.

I was very tired but I wanted
somebody to be with me,
so I lit a candle

and listened to its comfortable
voice of light until I was asleep.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster - Richard Brautigan

پ.ن: من که هیچ وقت با حافظ و فال حافظ میونه ای نداشتم (احتمالاً مشکل از منه البته) ولی دیشب که حال خوشی نداشتم کتاب جدید براتیگانم رو که تازه هدیه گرفته بودم باز کردم این اومد، خیلی هم بد نبود

We’re that kind of people

Some of the rivers are only a few inches wide.
I know a river that is half-an-inch wide. I know because I measured it and sat beside it for a whole day. It started raining in the middle of the afternoon. We call everything a river here. We’re that kind of people.

In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan

Please Plant This Book

SWEET ALYSSUM ROYAL CARPET

I've decided to live in a world where
books are changed into thousands of
gardens with children playing
in the gardens and learning the gen-
tle ways of green growing things

LETTUCE

The only hope we have is our
children and the seeds we give them
and the gardens we plant together.

Richard Brautigan

all of these are dedicated to you