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Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
For some semi-tropical reason when the rain falls relentlessly they fall
into swimming pools, these otherwise bright and scary arachnids. They can swim a little, but not for long
and they can't climb the ladder out. They usually drown—but if you want their favor, if you believe there is a justice, rewards for not loving
the death of ugly and even dangerous (the eel, hogsnake, rats) creatures, if
you believe these things then you would leave a lifebuoy or two in your swimming pool at night.
And in the morning you would haul ashore the huddled, hairy survivors
and escort them back to the bush, and know, be assured that at least these saved, as individuals, would not turn up
again someday in your hat, drawer, or the tangled underworld
of your socks, and that even— when your belief in justice merges with your belief in dream— they may tell the others
in a sign language four times as subtle and complicated as man's
that you are good, that you love them, that you would save them again.
Thomas Lux
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:hi:
RL
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