Territorial Conflict

There's a spider in my bathtub.
I don't know what to do.
He claims it as his homeland
(I think he is a Jew).

It is a Muslim bathtub.
I am a Christian girl,
And how to settle all these claims
Has my head in a whirl.

I want to take a shower
But I fear that he may bite.
This spider terrorism
Is giving me a fright.

I do not wish to harm him,
So here's what I have planned.
I'm hoping to deport him
Into a new homeland.

I hope he will be happy.
I'll do my very best,
But with spiders in my bathtub
I really cannot rest!

- Marilyn Gordon -
December 2002

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