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It's Raining In Love by 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.