On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening
sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in
bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of
the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is
having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer
now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms
are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious
boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away
or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And I feel like
I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I
will wake up
In the shivering cold
