mtns

the mountains will dissolve you. everything you thought you knew will evaporate and the culture of the mountains will seep in and replace it like chert. you will maintain a semblance of outsiderness, but the mountains will consume and overtake everything. you will stop showering every day. you will take silence and trees for granted and become frustrated when others don’t. you will piss off your back porch and have to dodge a dog. you will fix everything. you will burn irrationally large fires. you will value clean water. you will want a gun. you will be able to shake a man’s hand from 25 yards away. you will trade. you will drink. you will drink moonshine. your dogs will bark. your neighbors’ dogs will bark but only your dogs will know. deer, grouse, guinea, turkey, possum, raccoon and coyote will move across your yard. you will back up to let a neighbor pass on the one-lane road. you will awake at 3am, look at the stars, yawn and go back to bed until ten. you will hate ignorance. you will be dissolved by the mountains, but you will never be of the mountains. you will be sediment. the mountains will dissolve you and pass you through. you will not stay. you are dirt.