"Mountain Girls."
"People ask me where I'm from, and I
have no choice but to say that I'm from the mountains.
And then, depending on the number
of twitches per second I can count on their face,
I either lie and say I'm from this mountain or that mountain
in this or that state.
The facial expression that leads me to fess up and say I am from
Awa're-zan, the mountain where desperately starving young men
would carry their old grandmas on their backs and leave them
deep in the woods to wither and die,
except that these old grandmas developed their own community
of mountain hags and managed to live a grand old life burrowing
into the mountainside only when they were truly done with life,
and not when some ungrateful, unresourceful son had decided
to get rid of them.
And yeah, I'm one of those girls that is actually
a reborn mountain hag.
Well, that facial expression is quite wonderful and amazing,
and I've yet to come up with a name for it.
What about you?
Where are you from?"