Once I loved a spider <br />When I was born a fly, <br />A velvet-footed spider <br />With a gown of rainbow-dye. <br />She ate my wings and gloated. <br />She bound me with a hair. <br />She drove me to her parlor <br />Above her winding stair. <br />To educate young spiders <br />She took me all apart. <br />My ghost came back to haunt her. <br />I saw her eat my heart.<br /><br />Vachel Lindsay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-spider-and-the-ghost-of-the-fly/
