[stylist] Spiders

[Atty Rose]

That is so funny! My x-sister-in-law has a macaw that occasionally yells 
"Big red weeny!"
 LOL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Myrna Badgerow" <kajuncutie926 at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Spiders


>I just had to share this about my neighbor's parrot. When you walk into the 
>living room, the first thing you hear is "You again?"
> He's a beauty and a comedian.
> I love what everyone has been sharing.
> Myrna
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 9:40 AM, William L Houts <lukaeon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> HI Linda,
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>> Thanks for taking the time to read this one.  I know everyone has 
>> threescore emails coming in every half hour, so your notice is truly 
>> valued.  As for birds, I'd love to have a parrot and teach it lines from 
>> Auden ("...a crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead") 
>> but a medical condition makes that untenable, but stories of other 
>> folks's birds always lightens my mood, which his usually fairly bright 
>> anyway.
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>> --Bill
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>>> On 3/16/2014 7:31 AM, Lynda Lambert wrote:
>>> OH, this poem about the spider is really nice!
>>>
>>> Yes, my friend always referred to Doris' senior hairs as "Feathers." 
>>> When Doris got to be in her old age, she became more cranky and the 
>>> visits to the school children stopped as she no longer liked to have 
>>> anyone touching her feathers.
>>>
>>> Lynda
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atty Rose" <attyrose at cox.net>
>>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:09 AM
>>> Subject: [stylist] Spiders
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> "Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."
>>>>>
>>>>>          --Jane Siberry
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>>          --Jane Siberry
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