Wild Flowers/15: Spider-Man Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

It's rural India
A man was resting in his hut
Closing his eyes on the bed,
A spider dropped from top
On his mouth shut.
The spider jumped on the nose
And ran away upward.

The man thought
The spider entered to his brain
Through the nasal route
And increased his stress and strain
Family members explained the truth
But could not convince
Then they took him to hospital.

Doctors made a drama
Of taking out the same
And showed him a dead spider
But all went in vain
He told the spider is inside
It's moving here to there
Shortly the man became mad.

The children changed his name
Started calling ‘Spider-man'.