No Mail Today

Long ago, we established I don’t like spiders.

Spiders have too many legs and they don’t make any sound.  That’s creepy.

Spiders also hide under stuff waiting to ambush somebody.

They scurry across the floors when you turn off the lights.

They make traps out of webs to catch hapless little things just zipping about and minding their own business.

And how can you trust an organism garnering names such as “black widow” or “aggressive house spider?”

Posted today is a photograph of one of the mailboxes located next to mine on the road out of the ranchlands.

Don’t be looking for mail here, folks!

—Mitchell Hegman