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."
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Richard Brautigan, eccentric genius
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3 comments:
I love Brautigan's poems too! Maybe it should be the poem to go alone with the picture here, even if he didn't mention the pond could be a TV.
Thanks, Chanpheng! I had been searching for a funky image but had no luck. Pictures of Brautigan himself are pretty rare, usually from bookcovers, often blurry.
What a cool idea to have a fish tank in an old tv!
The image looks good with the poem - seems to have affected the formatting though!
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