I think it was back in my college days
after several very large mind experiments (hits)
I think I hit a plateau
I was on everest
as if I was walking up a wall -
like I could have walked up the wall and off into space
and around again.
I hit.
I was high
sherpa high

and years later
the song came out.
and the song brought me back there

I was traveling
while sitting down.
but much more than this too.
in the landscape of the parking lot
between two jobs
I stopped to listen to the end of the song
with thoughts of baby Gordie and how he hugged me this morning
and Christine, on the couch,
tired with pregnancy and too little money
and later at quarter to midnight walking into the
sleeping house greeted by my overexcited dog
and stepping over plastic trucks to the kitchen
some lyrics come to me. some memories come to me.
elevation.
"to the depths
of everest"

-David G.