The Proposition - Oct 22, 2026

two days after I carefully transferred

a black widow and its ball of spawn

to the darkness of a bush,

a young daddy long legs

squats on the very same web,

busy repairing broken filaments

and stitching new accessories

to personalize its new home

here we go again,

another arachnid faces eviction

from a web my hand brushes on its way

to plug in my computer

so I approach it with a proposition;

You catch that annoying mosquito

that’s been buzzing and biting me

and I’ll tell the housekeepers

not to clean under this shelf

two days later I broke my word