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Scott MacLeod's avatar

The Optimist

Hopeful proposition to black widow: dinner THEN sex.

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John Affleck's avatar

A Meditation

Trust is holding a lover with eight arms.

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Vicka Kharitonova's avatar

Widow Again.

Black? Hell, no! That’s silly! Call me Red.

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J.D.A's avatar

The European Nursery Web Spider’s Favourite Memory

Wrapped fly in silk- mated watching you eat

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Sreemanti Sengupta's avatar

A spider’s pick up line

All my eyes are on you baby doll.

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Jane Salmons's avatar

Love at First Bite

My type. Gleaming palps. Diminuitive. Play dead. Crunch!

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Jane Salmons's avatar

'Diminutive' not 'diminuitive'. Oops.

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Michelle Sara King's avatar

Catch my mate

Saw you on links, want to be mine?

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Pamela Pescosolido's avatar

A Spider’s Valentine

Draw close my luscious, leggy lady: Be mine.

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Roberta Beary's avatar

‘Strange But True Facts About Bluebeard’

He died from a widow spider’s love bite.

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Louella Lester's avatar

Awakened By Fingers Whispering My Ankle

Spider webs glisten the foot of my bed.

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Karen Walker's avatar

Title: At the bar, the spider's wingman whispers,

"Now tickle and spin lace above her knee."

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Jamie's avatar

Lascivious Arachnid

Wanna see what I've got between my legs?

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Andy N (New Account)'s avatar

LOVE

Sixteen legs, two hearts, spun in webs.

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SPUN IN THE LIGHT

Woven in love, web spun in the light.

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

The Courtship of Venom/Eddie’s Father

Arching, slinking, injecting. What’s left: living through it.

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Alan McDiarmid's avatar

Back page ad for amorous arachnids

Don’t wait. Procreate! Males however, may not escape.

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Michael G. O'Connell's avatar

He'd do anything to catch her eyes. Anything.

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