Basket

spider on the floor
please, make it end
crawling slowly
onto the basket
it is empty now
used to be filled
up to the top
not anymore
you took them all
every last one
not one single left
for me to keep
slowly up the side
inch by inch
it's almost there
you were so cruel
it's on the edge
will it fall in
down to the bottom
so long to wait
oh, there it goes
or maybe not yet
it doesn't matter
long since gone

4-23-91