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Created on: May 21, 2008
Eight-Legged Haiku
Tiny black spider
Deadly, blood-red hourglass
Tangled web like steel
Little brown fiddler
Ambush is set in my shoes
Toes swollen purple
One web, many eggs
Hatchlings skitter like soldiers
Deploying to pounce
Monster grows hungry
Grows bored of watching the web
Eyes sleeper in bed
Eight hairy strong legs
Squeeze tightly, holding prey firm
Mandibles dripping
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