KARMA REPAIR KIT: ITEMS 1-4
1. Get enough food to eat,
And eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.
MAP SHOWER
For Marcia
I want your hair
to cover me with maps
of new places,
so everywhere I go
will be as beautiful
as your hair.
I FEEL HORRIBLE. SHE DOESN’T
I feel horrible. She doesn’t
Love me and I wander around
The house like a sewing machine
That’s just finished sewing
A turd to a garbage can lid.
THE HORSE THAT HAD A FLAT TIRE
Once upon a valley
there came down
from some goldenblue mountains
a handsome young prince
who was riding
a dawncolored horse
named Lordsburg.
I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever
In the valley
there was a beautiful maiden
whom the prince
drifted into love with
like a New Mexico made from
apple thunder and long
glass beds.
I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever
The prince enchanted
the maiden
and they rode off
on the dawncolored horse
named Lordsburg
toward the goldenblue mountains.
I love you
You’re my breathing castle
Gentle so gentle
We’ll live forever
They would have lived
happily ever after
if the horse hadn’t had
a flat tire
in front of a dragon’s
house.
BOO, FOREVER
Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
i love richard brautigan, and if your reading this i probably love you too.