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A Fly Stuck In A Spider's Web

A fly stuck in a spider's web gives a buzzing distress call

Too entangled for to fly free and too powerless for to crawl

Unto a safer surface for it no get away

The sleeky black house spider rushes forth and grabs it's prey.

 

It can't escape the spider's fangs no matter how it try

Perhaps it is a natural death for the common blow fly

Many of it's kind have a more painful end they linger for a day

After inhaling the poison fumes when hit by the fly spray.

 

For the hungry spider a nice meal it's appetite to satisfy

It may have to wait another day or two for to catch another fly

Of the flies that fly into it's web perhaps two out of three

Seem to cheat death in the nick of time by somehow struggling free.

 

The fly cannot escape the spider's grasp today the hunter eat

And to it's taste buds a sleek blow fly makes for a tasty treat

The laws of Nature apply to all of life even to you and I

And for the spider for to live the blow fly had to die.

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Apr 25, 2010
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