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Bear [Lyric Poem]

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Walking down a trail, I had quite a scare --
   For walking straight towards me was a big ole bear.
 It glanced at me, and then down at its feet,
   Then that speciesist bear had the nerve to cross the street.

POEM: Knee-Jerk Speciesism

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Photo Source: Ken-ichi Ueda – 
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/121 [via Wikipedia]
I glimpsed the red hourglass,
vibrating in a stone wall --
a Black Widow spider,
bouncing on a thin web
spun within the void
of an absent rock --
that gap forming the
 spider's recessed hide.

And instead of being happy
that the spider 
had found a fine shelter,
I worried that a child would
stick a careless mitt 
deep into that wall hole,
and be bitten on the hand.

In retrospect,
this seems so unfair 
to the spider.