I Like Spiders Poem by Richard Dates

I like spiders!
They live by eating flies,
And other buzzing critters
With giant, compound eyes.

I like observant spiders
With fuzzy, curious faces,
Their many eyes a-glitter,
Placed in the strangest places.

I like the kind of spiders
Who build webbed and wondrous traps;
Their silk with dew drops shimmers,
But will snare unwary chaps.

I like ferocious spiders
Whose hollow, pointed fangs
Holds juice that kills their dinners,
Then digests it while it hangs.

I like hungry spiders
With their very special jaws,
Which suck their tasty suppers,
Like milk shakes slurped through straws.

I like all kinds of spiders,
But not hiding in my bed,
Or sleeping in my slippers,
Nor climbing on my head!