#rudeteens — Summary

all i want is to piss alone on this mountain away from rude teens and arguments about hash tags.

i’m not sure how to summarize your day in run-on witticisms. like the trees and rocks and flowers prematurely blooming i don’t love or understand you but iat least accept you.

suggested hash tags for your day:

hash tag i’ll be dead one day

hash tag i hope my body is fodder for flowers one day hash tag my life is a foil for the steadfast infinity of rocks hash tag my god is my self and it will die one day too hash tag when my limbs are sore i feel a loneliness i can’t digitally convey hash tag i have at least two copies of every friend and i no longer know

which copy truly loves me

hash tag great day outdoors

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A speaker climbs a mountain wanting only one thing: to be left alone, away from noisy teenagers and online arguments. But the escape doesn't quite work. Even surrounded by rocks, trees and early flowers, the mind keeps thinking in hashtags, the shorthand of social media. The speaker offers a list of "suggested" tags for the day, and they swing from jokey to bleak: death, bodies feeding flowers, a self-made god that will die too.

The turn comes near the end, with the line about having "two copies of every friend." It suggests that online versions of people feel doubled and unreliable, and the speaker can't tell which one is real. The sore limbs bring a loneliness that can't be posted.

The mood is wry but sad. The speaker doesn't love or understand the natural world, only accepts it, and that quiet acceptance contrasts with the final cheerful tag, "great day outdoors," which now sounds hollow and ironic.

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