A spider lived in our shower.
I named him Gus, he was a perv,
would hang there hour after hour,
quite motionless, with steely nerve.
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Thats a great poem rather odd but very interesting its great to see more poeple with an interest in spiders. Your friend Gus sounds rather like Franklin an 8 legged mate of mine who lives in my bedroom.
I am not a great lover of spiders but I did enjoy reading this....it was sweet in it's own little way.
No Allan, Gus really did live in my shower and I am pretty sure that he looked at my various parts with great appreciation. All the other visitors were smaller children or females so..... I enjoyed his company (perhaps being a bit of an arachnoid exhibitionist) but one day, She who hates spiders 'accidentally' flushed him down the drain. Then she had the guts to report hearing Gus calling my name repeatedly as he went down. I thought I would give him a bit of a cheeky farewell. H
This is one of your best poems, Herbert. I saw the spider, the water, it was a movie and very well done.10+
This is not bad, not bad at all! It is lined with a tongue-in-cheek kind of humour and how it 'transpires' has been really well thought about and erected well. haha. Nice one.