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From: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Dark)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Eulogy for Max the Spider
Message-ID: <881@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 16:23:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 16:23:49 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 11:31:50 EST
Reply-To: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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A sad farewell we bid to thee,
My eight-legged stage door friend;
And the wreath of fat houseflies laid on your grave
We will lovingly cherish and tend.

A regular Thespis in spidery form,
Though Nature created him dumb;
Hamming it up from a silvery thread
Was our bon vivant arthropod chum.

But Nature weaves a tangled web 
Which brings us to spiderless days,
And our mandibled comrade's earthly friends
Now sing the following praise:

"He devoted his forces to Culture and Art,
 That tasteful retainer named 'Max' did,
 And that is why we each shed a tear
 For our elegant stage-door arachnid."