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Richard Brautigan - 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,
  it's 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.

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It's Raining In Love - Comments and Information

Poet: Richard Brautigan
Poem: It's Raining In Love
Year: Published/Written in 1950

Comment 1 of 1, added on February 27th, 2007 at 1:50 AM.

Rain is something that we always wait for. It is essential and sustains life. We never know when its gonna come or fall. But we
know it will in its own time. Oftentimes, it comes unexpectedly. Just like the love that the boy longs for the girl. He waits patiently for it but for how long he will soon have it, only the girl knows. Raining In Love for me is much like waiting, trusting and believing for something or someone that you like most.


hm.... from United States

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