I walked across the park to the fe… It was in the center of a glass sq… by red flowers and fountains. The… was in the shape of a sea horse an… We got hot and died.

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

A trout-colored wind blows through my eyes, through my finger… and I remember how the trout used to hide from the dinosaurs when they came to drink at the riv…

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved,

A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what?

We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. The wind glanced at her hair. It was as simple as that. I turned to say something—

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.

It’€™s a star that looks like a poker game above the mountains of eastern Oregon. There are three men playing.

I don’t care how God-damn smart these guys are:     I’m bored. It’s been raining like hell all da… and there’s nothing to do.

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

For Marcia

I sit here, an arch-villain of rom… thinking about you. Gee, I’m sorr… I made you unhappy, but there was… I could do about it because I hav… Perhaps everything would have been…

A girl in a green mini– skirt, not very pretty, walks down the street.

I feel horrible. She doesn’t love me and I wander around like a sewing machine that’s just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.

This poem was found written on a p… Brautigan in a laundromat in San…