The Strange Thing Kiosai Saw in the River | John La Farge
Go Leone Gabrielle
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oldfish sing
Sometimes like flycatchers. I don’t listen. Because. Because I allow myself to be forgiven.
Once, I cut the legs off a sink spider. Not all of them. The spider had not done anything wrong. How did Mother know? Was she cleaning the sink, noticing legs? I used scissors. Hair cutting scissors. She embedded into me a fact, that by cutting off the legs, I am decently bad. I must have been very, very angry. To do that. Though I felt no anger. Just a weird, curious, compulsion that came instantly from nowhere. I never cut anyone’s legs off after that. 55
