[stylist] Spiders

[William L Houts]

Wow, Attie, you're a regular Dr. Doolittle!


--Bill







On 3/16/2014 7:36 AM, Atty Rose wrote:
> She's sweet. Well, unles you're a cricket!
> If she gets frightened she will flick her leg hair at you and they 
> itch. She's never bitten, but we don't handle her lots either. She's 
> hand shy, she's nearly four years old.
>
> We had an awesome rat name Rae and she lived 3 years.  She was so 
> cute, like a puppy with no sense. LOL
>
> We also have a Bearded-dragon name Simon. He needs special lights and 
> ground greens every day and he is high maintanence. The tarantula is 
> low low maintanence.
> ----- Original Message -----
> But I'd rather have a dog or cat myself. They are actually Blake's 
> pets but we share!
>
> Pet on,
> Atty
>
> From: "William L Houts" <lukaeon at gmail.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Spiders
>
>
>>
>> Hi Attie,
>>
>> I'm so happy to hear about your tarantula.  People defame them in all 
>> sorts of ways,  don't they?  They're reputed to be vicious or 
>> poisonous or bad for your complexion or some damned thing, but of 
>> course they're mostly harmless, even if they are mildly repulsive, heh.
>>
>>
>> --Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/2014 7:09 AM, Atty Rose wrote:
>>> We have a tarantula named Azreilla. She is a rose hair and very big. 
>>> Just for those who don't know, tarantulas have hair on them and when 
>>> I could see I thought it looked course, but after touching it I can 
>>> tell you it is soft like a chick.
>>>
>>> And they web. She eats crickets from the pet store.
>>>
>>> Write on,
>>> Atty
>>>
>>> Thought i'd share. LOL
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William L Houts" 
>>> <lukaeon at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:57 AM
>>> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "A Spider"
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Peeps,
>>>>
>>>> Here's something I just dug up from one of my older, creakier 
>>>> poetry folders.  I wrote this sometime in my twenties, and I think 
>>>> it still works.  OH hell, why don't I just say it:  I'm in love 
>>>> with this poem and wouldn't edit it dfor a mint, LOL.  I've written 
>>>> a few poems about spiders, as I love the hideous little monsters 
>>>> somewhat, but this is probably the best.  Comments welcome, as always.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sprawled in my favorite chair,
>>>> I  found a spider striving down
>>>> my sweater's cotton roads;
>>>> uncruel, I meant to brush her
>>>> from my collar to the floor,
>>>> but a brainless finger crushed her.
>>>>
>>>> Drunk on ideas the size of salt,
>>>> her witty legs, those marvelous legs
>>>> had skittered her down the wall
>>>>
>>>> to vistas of heaving; the ebb
>>>> and flo of my breathing.
>>>>
>>>> A ruined husk.  I didn't reckon
>>>> the difference between our lives,
>>>> the stellar gap between a spider's
>>>> life and mine:  and this was my task,
>>>> for if it exists, a reckoning spider is
>>>> truly a monster, a foe to be fought.
>>>>
>>>> But she was no monster,
>>>> and I was only a man in a chair,
>>>> reading, with no ill intent:  and yet
>>>> that tiny walker died, a small
>>>> color in the world gone to gray
>>>>
>>>> at my blameless finger's end.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> "Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."
>>>>
>>>>           --Jane Siberry
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Writers Division web site
>>>> http://writers.nfb.org/
>>>> stylist mailing list
>>>> stylist at nfbnet.org
>>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
>>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info 
>>>> for stylist:
>>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/attyrose%40cox.net 
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Writers Division web site
>>> http://writers.nfb.org/
>>> stylist mailing list
>>> stylist at nfbnet.org
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info 
>>> for stylist:
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/lukaeon%40gmail.com 
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> "Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."
>>
>>           --Jane Siberry
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Writers Division web site
>> http://writers.nfb.org/
>> stylist mailing list
>> stylist at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> stylist:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/attyrose%40cox.net 
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Writers Division web site
> http://writers.nfb.org/
> stylist mailing list
> stylist at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> stylist:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/lukaeon%40gmail.com


-- 
"Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."

           --Jane Siberry