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Spiders Don’t Chew Gum

poem

Vic Spandrio
Lit Up
2 min readMay 17, 2024

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You’re shown to a table
where a game is underway
the other players already playing
some three to a chair
who make a great noise
about nothing
blow smoke in your eye
and say things like
‘aren’t you a lively one?’

A spider crawls across the table
deals you in, you hate spiders
you hear an egg-timer wound
inside your chest
tossed in an old drawer
forgotten

Fanfare
ladies, gentlemen!
A man and woman
married in the seat beside you
now divorced
what a shame for the children
say all the people

A man chewing gum
shuffles his chair closer
says maybe you want to swap cards
you don’t trust him
he might be a spider
but you remember
spiders don’t
chew gum

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Vic Spandrio
Vic Spandrio

Written by Vic Spandrio

Writer based in New South Wales, Australia.

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