Conversation

I talk to spiders, usually just the standards
"Oh, hello, nice day? Catch any flies?" Then a nod at what anthropomorphic twitch signals that I've been heard
Neighbors respecting space pay the rent in dead common vermin or parasitic scourge

Sometimes though I'll talk to the spiders about much deeper things. Hopes and dreams and various complexes and love, and though they answer me, the answers are not the ones I want