Taking 🕷 to France

Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash

🕷’s pregnant
she is beautiful…
I feel quite close to her
for someone so afraid of her ilk

I feel bad about leaving her
I bet the new occupants
give her one look,
her ochre, stripey legs
her throbbing belly
and shriek, sure
that their unfounded fear
trumps the right to life of such grotesquerie,
and nobody would blame them for squashing her,
because…