a fuckin calamity he set in
motion
he felt horrible about it
it began innocently enough
but didnt all things
his girlfriend didnt follow
it took some doing
most of it was up to her to let go to
bring her aboard
his family didnt
he forewarned guys on his
crew
they didnt get it either
No matter he said Just follow thats
all ya gotta do
no skin off their ass maybe a bit
of shiver slight unease
then
hed take it away
See All gone
he had this thing about spiders
and psychotically he extended this
thing to those around him who he had to live with or work
Please Im asking you just respect it
I
dont bitch your smoking slipping booze at work crap that quietly riles me So please leave me mine
Just point and I got it
his crew called him Buddha
if you knew him really knew him you
knew he didnt want spiders dead
not everyday appleseeds(daddylonglegs)
not widows or tarantulas
not any arachnidBAM!
so they tipped him off(laughing fucking
hysterical) and he gathered them out of harms way and released them to do their
spidery works as Nature intended and the trade-off was all the times he
worked the brush culling firewood pulling through dilapidated structures for
odds and ends that would be forever lost under the bulldozers blade and treads for creeping in nooks and crannies that
surprised black widows
they didnt bite
once under a house during reconstruction
a widows nest tumbled down on top of him
there were more than the crew could
count crawling on and around him
the spiders were agitated
they had more than ample reason
to bite
but they didnt
it was stuff like this that reinforced
his gut touted the unspoken unexpected truce between arachnids and himself fixing their
dynamic to live and let live
because he understood this it was sufficient then to make
others suffer it
particularly if their actions their
proximity to him could possibly be eighteyes-seen a reflection on him
he wasnt going to have that
so whether they humored him playing
along actually appreciated his belief system or simply liked watching him work
his way down a ladder he was halfway up with a heavy load on his shoulder they called him over
as he urinated he saw an
appleseed unsteadily crawling up the wall beside the sink cabinet
he washed his hands then looked to
see its progress
it had broken level with the
Formica countertop
he was always fascinated with their
impossibly thin legs
this one from the tip of its foreleg to the tip of its
hindleg was easily three inches
a Big Boy or Big Girl
innocently he tapped the wall
just beneath it
it crouched
he tried to touch the tip of its
hindleg with his fingernail but it leapt onto the countertop
not seeing where it landedit
seemed to have vanished he thought it may
possibly have landed inside the woven cane Q-tip holder
he didnt trust it would emerge
before the next time he needed a Q-tip and forgetting he might possibly injury
it
grabbing the holder the appleseed
banzaied out from behind it startling him
his start tapped an unsteady
toothbrush in the colored glass Mason jar and it fell against a Dr Schoals
emeryboard that he leaned up against the mirror when he set it on the
countertop
the appleseed all-legs rushed
madly comically along the vanitys backsplash
tragically the topheavy
emeryboard fell left on top the bobblestepping appleseed
the whole of this unraveled in s l o
m o
t i o n
under his s l o m o t
i o n breath crying Noooooo
and under its hollow syllable
rose inside his head a ghostly voice whispering monotonously Its all fun and games until someone
gets hurt
or killed
as its thin twitching legs ceased twitching
it was a sick cosmic lethal
fuckin Hasbro Mousetrap-Spidertrap game itnever henever intended to play
1430,
Day-between-Two-Ts, 14 9. 16
0948, Friday, 16 9.
16
Darker Side Jonny Lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TK3X2djj24
