spider's web

you lie in wait with
your best suit on
all innocence and charm
lusting for that next one
there always is a next one
as the last one's been all
chewed up and spat out

what a perfect setup for a
sly predator like yourself
it's no wonder that your
wicked sticky web is woven
right there at the gateway
so you can catch them
before they suss you out

i hadn't seen a vampyre spider
until landing in this place
i've watched and watched
and watched some more
as you picked them off to
suck there life's blood dry

what was there for me to do ?
being a stranger in these parts
i too was baffled and bamboozled
by the slick and oily practised
smoothness of your carny bluff

but not for very long at all
as your scent was soon apparent
being quite familiar to this travel
weary pilgrim's seasoned snout

aaahh....but the crafty spider
and the oh so eager hapless fly
have danced this deadly tango
since the very dawning of
what we know as time

who am i to judge this drama ?
as the fly seems ever willing
to fulfill an ancient inner calling
and devote itself to wily spidey's
luncheon menu of the day