The Spider


from the ABC set For The Kids

Spider, spider on the wall
Black hairy legs stealthily crawl,
The way you pounce upon your prey
Evil cunning by night and day,
The beautiful web you constantly weave
So cleverly designed to deceive.
The sickening way you make them die,
The fat black beetle, the buzzing fly,
One impulsive visit with you
Then their lives are surely through.
Inject them with your acid sting
Peace to their heaving bodies bring.
Enjoy your meal spider, do
For sentence of death you're under too...

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Comments

lenchenelf | January 23, 2009 - 15:13

:-) Kids are less squeamish at that age, I think it becomes a peer group learned response to the idea of creepy crawlies. Nice dark snippet :-) atb L

MistakenMagic | January 23, 2009 - 17:54

It's like a dark and twisted nursery rhyme! Love it :)

Magic xxx

threeleafshamrock | January 24, 2009 - 00:38

Roald Dahl would be envious. Nice work!

Chris

tamara (not verified) | January 25, 2009 - 10:21

It captures atmospherically the essence of the fear around spiders!Brilliant.
Lynne.x