Arachnophilia

Some people can’t get over

their arachnophobia

but say that I’m far sillier :

I have arachnophilia .

Red-backs and huntsmen

and daddy-long-legs

I just love to visit

in grandad’s shed

while the backyard becomes

a construction site

where spiders build webs

on hot summer nights .

Ode on a Peroni Pint Glass

Peroni Ode.

tall

& tapered

like

an elegant woman

thin-waisted

you are a

delight

to hold

the cold beer finding

perfection

in you;

no ingenue,

you are sophisticated

& true

……. and a little ditty :

You can’t upstage these

they have flair up their sleeves;

nothing else surpasses

Peroni pint-size glasses

Zips

Zips.

Couldn’t help noticing

the chairs

me & Ross chat on

Sundays

have zips in ‘em.

How cool would it be, I thought,

if we came with zips —

 we come with a button —

then they wouldn’t have to cut us open

during surgery:

all they’d have to do is unzip us

and go in.

Why wasn’t a zip included

in our blueprint?