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, โIt's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,โ 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, โI wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.
Richard BrautiganBoo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
Richard BrautiganI feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 Iโm yours ghosts and all.
Richard BrautiganNight was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.
Richard Brautigan