when he received the first note it was written on the face of a billing envelope Theres a black widow in your mailbox

it was from his postman 

he didnt think much of it
the widow had been there a couple of months hanging out as widows hang out
she was HUGE shiny  not inconspicuous  in the insect world as she moved she must have sounded as if she stepped around in wooden Dutch shoes or clodhoppers

certainly il postino remembered last year the widow in his mailbox

he had to bounce her when she broke their agreement

he agreed to let her stay as long as she wanted  as long as she didnt lay eggs

he told her Make no mistake Cross me Youre gone

perhaps she was nudged by Nature

she defied their agreement

God knows she was cute

apparently she thought herself a tad too cute

                                     Break the rules  Opt to breed  Adios
Dont let the door crack you in the ass on your way out

begrudgingly he evicted her

he took her and her eggsack out at the end of a stick

he walked them across the street transplanted them onto an overgrown bush in the shade near his driveway  

he used remnant strands of web he peeled from inside the mailbox to affix the eggsack to the shrubbery

while he tended to that she wandered off stifflegged

it wasnt really her style

likely she was indignant or miffed at her eviction  by the suddenness or an air of rudeness during her abrupt ride

Whaa Am I a chile she may have squealed

he wouldnt know  he didnt speak black widow

then last weekend he received another note on yet another billing envelope Need to clear the black widow or will cease

to deliver mail 6/25 signed (it looked like) @ (evidently he couldnt read postman)

it made him a little irate

on Monday 6/27 he left a handwritten note Afraid of spiders? Shes a good foot away from your fingers(at the back

of the box)

when he retrieved Mondays mail on the piece of paper he left his note was a reply Yes I am! And when I opened it a few times she was at the FRONT!

Yes I am!

frankly he was beholding to black widows

hed always treated them kind provided them wide berth took a Live and Let Live attitude

one day working as a carpenter under a house lying on his back a nest of widows was dislodged and fell on his chest

he could felt their myriad pointed feet running up and down his tshirt onto his throat down inside it across his face into his hair breeze his ears

                    but kept his shit together

from above another carpenter lit him up with a flashlight and offered I cant help you I suggest you lie still a halfhour or better  Ill check back with you

Oh  You feel like youve been bit

Nah  Feel just a bit crawly is all

Well man youre covered in widows  Be chill  Check on you in a halfhour

given that he evicted the black widow last year he felt obliged to also evict this one

a new stick  new digs  an abandoned brush pile overgrown with weeds and grass

he figured she and hers would prosper   

Yes I am!

that made him laugh

at the room at the bottom of the note he squeezed in My apologies  She evidently likes you!

early Saturday evening,  25  6. 16

 1411,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  29  6. 16

The Kinks Wholl Be the Next in Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3kNuSUQcdE