Monday, June 07, 2021

 Allowables - Nikki Giovanni


I killed a spider


Not a murderous brown recluse

Nor even a black widow

And if the truth were told this

Was only a small

Sort of papery spider

Who should have run

When I picked up the book

But she didn’t

And she scared me

And I smashed her


I don’t think

I’m allowed


To kill something


Because I am


Frightened