coffee and discovery channel:
eighty percent of climbing accidents
happen on the descent
ain't that funny, eighty percent

i suppose it hasn't occurred to them
to stay up at the top a little longer
until bones get denser and the mind grows stronger
and the soul prepares to fly

it's warm inside my sea-level room
but one day, god damn, i'll have to die
and then some bully forced into a bow tie
will sit in a room and listen to overweight women cry

it's just another mountain
except it's one that comes for us
no need to board a plane or sweat in a bus
just wait a while and it will come

with whirls of terror at the peak
freezing exposed skin as you unzip to take a leak
across a view of ageless beauty far below
and all the things you'll never get to know