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Spider Allowables

November 18, 2020
By Bellagay BRONZE, Goshen, Ohio
Bellagay BRONZE, Goshen, Ohio
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I asked her for a simple favor, to kill a spider that had been sitting on my wall

She reaches over to glass and paper and puts the spider under gently

I don’t understand why and shall I never want to as spiders are disgusting


They crawl around and create gross looking webs around my room

They’re icky

Gross

Terrifying

And don’t deserve anything


I wish she could’ve killed the spider instead of saving it

Wish she would’ve torn it limb by limb 

Pieces to pieces

Maybe even burning it would’ve been better


But she saved it


She saved the disgusting horrid spider

And I will forever be reminded of that spider that might still be out there


The author's comments:

This was for a school assignment to remake something like allowable by Nikki Giovanni but about what some allowable there are or not. The poem is about spiders so I started thinking about how people don´t like spiders in general and think they´re satan of some sort. I´ve met mainly children who act like this so I tried to make it through the eyes of a very very hateful child who hated spiders.


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