I was sound asleep until in a dream
I saw a spider hanging from a spider
thread in front of my face.

It looked so real that I thought it
wasn’t a dream and woke up
ready to bat it away from my face.

And I wondered why me, why did
that goddamn spider have to hassle
me in that dream?

I looked up meanings of spiders in
dreams, but didn’t find any that
applied to me.

Maybe the meaning was it was
just a goddamn spider that
visited me in a lousy dream.

Bob Boyd