21 January 2014

Haiku 2014/21

why should I kill you
spider go ahead and spin
no one will enter

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Kill who? Creepy!

Patrick J. Vaz said...

It's meant to be ambiguous whether the first line refers to the spider or someone absent whom the speaker has sort of given up on emotionally, possibly the one who will not enter any longer -- though perhaps the speaker is isolated for other reasons, or the person he's thinking of is dead, and he is forming companionship with the spider -- or he's thinking of killing the spider; you can just loop around endlessly in it, or at least that was the intention