Showing posts with label Sometimes You Just Have to Wake Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sometimes You Just Have to Wake Up. Show all posts

Monday, October 30, 2023

(Waking Up) from the Nightmare

 

A dozen plump oranges were hanging from the tree.

A dozen plump spiders had encircled each one

with a dozen white webs.

 

Kitty tried to bat one away

but it just crawled toward the couch

and back again.

 

You sprayed them with water

but the fruit couldn’t be saved.

Except by me waking up.

 

Which I did,

and killed them

the only way I know how.

 

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