Happens to so many of us, the little house spider that comes from where? And spins its web which you clear away but then it’s back and you try but it comes back. Not a universal experience, but common enough to write about, and for Black Bear Review to include in its Issue # 4, The Beast, Fall, 1986.

I am like the spider
In the drain
Who comes back
When you wash him
Down with water
He comes back
And you plug the drain
And days later
He comes back
You scald and flood
He comes back
You smash at him
He comes back
Unless you crush
And carefully dismember
And many times kill
I come back