Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
...tting a lot of business. The bars where full of people, but in the present the hotels are out of business and the bars are filled with people, but the drivers are still the same with the same job. “The only prisoner is always in, not knowing what he’s done.” He thinks that the people that have been in jail for so long don’t even remember what they went to jail for in the first place. “The 1907 boom, eight going silver mines, a dance floor built on springs- all memory resolves it self in gaze, in panoramic green you know the cattle eat or two stacks high above the town, two dead kilns, the huge mill in collapse for fifty years that wont fall finally down.” He thinks about 1907 and the silver mines where full of silver and everyone was making money and they where all happy, the cattle had so much food they couldn’t finish it all and the people had plenty of money and it was good for fifty years, but sooner or later the mines are going to the empty and people that didn’t save their money went broke. “Isn’t this your life? That ancient kiss still burning out your eyes? Isn’t this defeat so accurate, the church bell simply seems a pure announcement...