Anonymous Spider Poem?
An underdog named "Wonderdog" posted an anonymous poem on "What's the Rumpus?" yesterday:
This poem is so anonymous that I don't find it anywhere else on the web. Methinks the pseudonymous Wonderdog himself might have written it. Yet ... it sounds familiar, like something that William Carlos Williams might have written.The Spider
He took no heed of me upon my writing table,
creeping assiduously along as best as he was able.
I stayed my hand and killed him not in tribute to his defiance,
his nonchalance, his aplomb, in strolling among giants.
-- Anonymous
Does anybody recognize it?
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