11.9.23


hed concede  a wee spider
                            the concession coming from wanting to remarkSing  Itsy-Bitsy Spider
the song his wife sang to their girls
he couldnt do it justice  so didnt

   a rustcoloured wee spider he found in the unwashed cereal bowl he left beside the kitchen sink last night
he forget to eat
                 woke in the middle of the night hungry  interesting experience  unlike waking to use the bathroom or starting from a dream  a dream not a nightmare  he didnt believe in nightmares any more than he believed in evil  a dreams a dream  evil is bad  he coudnt abide its religious connotationassociation so nixed it

plain old Cheerios splash of milk easily digestible set the bowl aside the tablespoon in the sink wasnt a cereal bowl a serving bowl
           he hadnt eaten

the spider played dead as he went to pickup the bowl to wash it with the dishes he fed the cats with this morning
   O hello  wha he woud give if one day a bug replied  or a cat squirrel mouse boid hummer lizard skink vulture hawk  he didnt talk to dogs

it quit playing dead ran up a side slid down up down up down Easy friend mean you no harm down up down up he couldnt blame it

picking up the bowl he went to take it outside up down updowning the whole way through the livingroom through the screendoor onto the front porch
                                 Mebbe Ill see ya again sometime  he tipped the bowl the spider slid onto the drink rail and to his freak it didnt set a nanosecondhurled itself from the rail onto the redwood porch  threeanahaf feet  he likened it to him leaping from atop a highrise  a juicy skinbag of blood and bone   make a splash a Rorschach forsure
little voice in his head giggled
                               We can do without tha
then it said  Exoskeleton
Yah
Weighs next to nothing
Yah
It didnt plummet
No
Glad you didnt scream like a little girl

   Yah a couple times he has  voice almost disowned him    

0813,  Monday,  11  9. 23

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