"I have completed my web,"it roared,
"you may commence your hopping"
I, scared but still quite bored
climbed up the tree and unto the web
I tested one foot then another
and began to balance my fatty lumber
I started with one hop
then two, then three
I started bouncing on the spider web
filled with glee
I was bouncing so high
I hardly noticed my new friend the spider
who had mysteriously made its way to the web
on the beach, by the ebb
licking its ferocious jaws
and sharpening its eight skinny claws
and with one final leap,
into the web I fell so graciously
It greeted me with open arms,
eight skinny arms that spun and stuck
and turned me round with endless spinning
then stopped and let me look into the face
only slightly grinning.
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