Death

and my unwillingness

Hi friends!

Here’s a poem:

On The Importance of Physical Fitness:
A Case Study

The spider was legs up on the ground
red, translucent,
wiggling

my dog’s nose nudged it into
a defensive spin

but it was still stuck on its back
unable to relieve itself
from sit-up (crunch) position

like last night’s lower back pain
prevented the right kind of engagement
of its abdomen.

The spider looked at me,
asking the question

and,
with a tear of toilet paper,
I answered.

In wordy wordiness,

Walter