Spiders -- For Goth

Is it that their wiggly legs

With hair or plastic looking

Might fall into your runny eggs

When you are busy cooking?

Or do you fear the brown recluse

Who hides inside your closet?

Or patchy webs in that old spruce

That make you want to lose it?

Instead of shivering in your shoes

Or jumping back in fear

Think, "Spiders would make great tattoos

Or fancy underwear."

"I think I'd like to dress like one

For Halloween, or Christmas

Their weaves shine like aluminum

And float between things, weightless

"Perhaps I'll climb into the lap

Of Daddy Longlegs, napping,

Or try a taste of venomed sap

Black Widow makes--most strapping!

"I want to see the world their way

The people passing by

Too big, or running all away,

While I sit in the sky.

"Such an adventure it would be

To be the spider on my knee

If she were I and I were she

A spider, weird and wild, and free."