Avoiding the Brazilian


I ventured out to buy bananas

I picked a modest bunch

I tore one off when I got home

To have it after lunch

But when I came to peel the skin

I saw to my surprise

I was being ogled

By a hundred tiny eyes

My length of fruit was poorly

Creepy crawlies deep within it

Brazilian Wandering Spiders

Were hatching by the minute

They wander in from Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru

I’ve read about these creatures

I knew what they could do

Unlike other spiders

Where these blighters differ

Is when they bite, one body site

Tends to get much stiffer

Four hours of gain, but awful pain

And danger to my life

Possibly the end for me

But a bonus for the wife