Jessica Spider

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
always started her day
with a yawn and a stretch
of her eight slender legs
and a juicy fly breakfast buffet.

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
liked to know what was what:
if the wind could play games
with a bird or a bee,
and the best way to open a nut.

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
spotted something below:
just a sweet little girl
with a bowl and a spoon,
and a cap that was tied with a bow.

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
dropped a good length of silk,
and she swung gently down
like a leaf on the breeze
and she landed right there in the milk!

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
only wanted to show
that a spider can learn
and she wants to make friends—
but the rest of the story you know.

Inquisitive Jessica Spider
crawled away with a sigh,
and the spoon and the bowl
and the tuffet and all
lay discarded there under the sky.