Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Bugs Return to Japan
Japan has been a cold, wet place without curious bugs for a long time. But recently as the temperature rises everyday a little, you discover again spider webs have been made for you to walk through. You leave the house and tear an invisible line and it tickles, and you fear those big cartoon spiders, and one sticking its towering, yellow-green legs into the fabric of your shirt somewhere. But you never find a cartoon spider or even any spider. And so you go out and you come home and you wash your hands and you put your bag down in the room and get on your computer and turn on a fan and try to find the classes you need for the fall semester, and in the meantime that spider whose web you ran into and through when you left the house today, and also the second one you ran into on the way back, well both of those cartoon spiders are in the room now! grown to HUMAN-SIZE behind your back they just flick their tongues, and as if blind-folded face seemingly without intent of doing anything towards directions not worth mentioning, the thoughts of the cartoon spiders are impossible to read, but if you saw even the ease, the tongue flicking would make you scared. But they leave you, they leave the room quietly, leave the house, go into the city and don't come back. Was it you? Or maybe they don't remember how to come back? Regardless, secret webs collide into you at every awning you pass under everyday and you come home and you've never ever met any spiders.
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