Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Sympathetic Nature of Human Beings

There's a spider in my hair. From the corner of my eye I was sure it was a shred of cotton but when I looked down its translucent body was fluttering about my long dark tresses, playing with the strands as if they were silk.
Its sleek shape slipped between my fingers as I tried to snatch it. My stomach churned. The chemistry lecture droned on. So I ripped off a corner of my note page and chased the vermin until the fragile thing was smothered into the black fuzz of my sweater... 
Ah no! Spider guts on my North Face?! That retched critter! I gazed down at the teeny white legs curled into the piece of paper in my hand. What an abominable deed I have done; I am a most careless human being.
 

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