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The Optimist

Hopeful proposition to black widow: dinner THEN sex.

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A Meditation

Trust is holding a lover with eight arms.

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Widow Again.

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

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The European Nursery Web Spider’s Favourite Memory

Wrapped fly in silk- mated watching you eat

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A spider’s pick up line

All my eyes are on you baby doll.

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Love at First Bite

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

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'Diminutive' not 'diminuitive'. Oops.

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Catch my mate

Saw you on links, want to be mine?

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A Spider’s Valentine

Draw close my luscious, leggy lady: Be mine.

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‘Strange But True Facts About Bluebeard’

He died from a widow spider’s love bite.

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Awakened By Fingers Whispering My Ankle

Spider webs glisten the foot of my bed.

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

"Now tickle and spin lace above her knee."

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Lascivious Arachnid

Wanna see what I've got between my legs?

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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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The Courtship of Venom/Eddie’s Father

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

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Back page ad for amorous arachnids

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

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

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