spiderboy

Spiderfingers

I see the towers blinking with red eyes

far away in Libertyville and Lockridge

and other towns whose names do not begin with the letter L

I think of you climbing up with trumpet tapping fingers

and I am afraid you will fall

You sit at the tower's top and stretch your digital silk

and lay your cobweb all over the surface of the blue planet

so that I can say kon' nichiwa to pen pals in Japan

Now I can email you.

Good.

Because you are so far away up that tower.

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