Think about it . Do houses with lots of heads and hearts inside have creaky pipes ? No . People who have people don ’ t have creaky pipes .
I do . Listen .
~.~ I went into the kitchen and opened the sugar pot . The spider was inside where I left it .
It was all dried up on its back , in that horrible way spiders die . It looked like an upside-down hair clip ; its hairy legs crimped like a tiny ribcage .
I picked it up by a leg and blew the sugar grains from its body . I kept it tight in my fist until its body broke apart .
You know dead things ? They ’ re peculiar . You think that when creatures die that they become objects like everything else . Something lying about the place , like