He's a strange boy Dusty hair and cobwebs in his ears Musty clothes and rusty bones He doesn't wash He doesn't even brush the grit from his eyes So when he blinks little trails fall his cheeks He sinks into old black boots Always moves with the wind Like he's pinned to it Grinning glint of the sun warms his cold face As he floats from place to place He cries but no tears come Instead some tiny spiders come sliding And devouring each other Retreating to weave webs around his head He hears the wind whistling through them sometimes Tries to learn the notes To play on his bone piccolo The Spider Web Sonata He'd call it if anyone would ever listen But it doesn't seem to be the type of thing That would ever happen to him Not in this life anyway