6347. THE BLUES OF A GREEN MOUNTAIN MAN

THE BLUES OF A 

GREEN MOUNTAIN MAN

All those Vermont people I keep forgetting, with their

barns and rambling house perched on wooded hills  -

I never want to forget again. It's all too valuable

for listening. Married lucky, most of them did, those

outsiders who awake the next day and realize they've

 got a house now, their wife's dear-family's place,

in those distant, tall and very green mountains.

It happens that way for females too, I guess, just

in the opposite direction. Nice too. Then, don't

forget, there are the locals  -  the poor ones who

feel stuck instead of lucky. Poor enough to be 

scrounging for wood with which to heat and food 

with to eat. Their broken-down cars can't move

because they're broken down in the yard and out

of gas as well. Money's tough, and instead of a

Paradise this can feel like a Hell. And I know that

myself  -  been there already. The ground's about

rocky enough too, maybe for geology, to have a

great big party; and those dairy cows keep hungry

all long Winter long. I don't know how to escape that

nor what to do about it. Hate to see them sorry  -  baying

and mooing and cowing all the time. 'It's enough to drive

me crazy. And I've got left left as blankets even for with 

which to sleep : hungry's OK, and cold's OK, if they're 

one at a time. But taken together, they're 'less than great',

and I'm going easy on that one, for the sake of the tourist

guides and the little books that talk about pleasant travel.

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I had a friend once  -  he's dead now  -  I remember him 

one day saying, towards a dog there running free -

"I'm so cold I could eat that dog." I never knew what  

he meant but figured he meant he was so 'hungry' he

could eat that dog. I finally once asked him  -  'what are

you supposed to mean by saying that? Do you mean

'hungry' instead?" He said back "No, that's the obvious one,

of course I'm hungry enough to eat the dog, yeah, but cold

enough says it better, because once you're full and not hungry.

your body starts generating heat as it begins to digest. You see?

It's a double-deal, and it's good both way  -  hungry AND warm."

Them Green Mountain blues sure are a song...