more howl

i've been spending a lot of time in the desert lately
lots of people ask me why i live here
why you live in the desert man?
why would anyone want to live in the desert?
i guess it's easy to say that to someone out there
it's hot
dry
rough
i've been a lot of places
been around the world ya know?
never felt anything like I feel when I'm in the desert
these valleys filled with ghosts
cliff dwellings
silence
i guess it's the silence
the call of the nothing
just hollow
it's that frontier that's just there
you can see
it goes and goes and goes
i guess it's kind of like the way a wolf would look at a city from a distance
what is it
what is that man?
it's just the not knowing i guess
the beauty of the wild
the untamed
the non strip mall
no fuckin stop lights
no bills
the nothing
thats why
that's why i love it
it's the unsafe
the no nothing
the wild
the screams of the hollow peaks
i feel drawn to it more and more
i understand it
starting to learn how to breathe it
i wander
stare
flirt with the idea of just going
become the desert
the dust
the hollow peak
i'll become a peak
a gate to the nothing
the nothing
i'll become the nothing, too.