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At the California Institute of Technology

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

I don't care how God-damn smart
these guys are: I'm bored.

It's been raining like hell all day long
and there's nothing to do.

Written January 24, 1967
while poet-in-residence at
the California Institute of
Technology.




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