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Ed Mirago & friends's avatar

your juicy rich layered language and the love of lemon the spider, joy and a wild ride this piece. keep wanting to see you performing this live, maybe with a backup band or at least an upright bass.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…that’s the dream ed…got to get an in house band at some point :)…small goals though…first we do spider appreciations…then the live free jazz…then a stadium tour calling bingo…appreciate you!…

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

... hahaha... maybe we're half spiders, after all... 2 arms, 2 legs... still, i think we're unspiders, even though we built the largest web... we cannot make silk, but our lies can be just as sticky...

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...we need more eyes...

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

...yes, i forgot the eyes... we definitely don't have enough of those...

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Rick Lewis's avatar

This is all better than most of the properly formatted poetry I have read in my life. Part of me wants you to name it for the poetry that it is, and present it so, but the pretense of such would likely not do you any favors. Reading your work is always like a creativity shower, speaking of showers. I scrub my mind parts with these soapy sparks of your musings.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...it's good to be clean Rick...it's good to be clean...

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Claire Coley's avatar

This is totally poetry, Rick’s exactly right.

I find this type of writing relaxing, always enjoy it.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...you are onto something there Claire...this did release some stress writing it down...for weeks I couldn't figure out why that final dance was so haunting and sticky...but at least now Lemon and I got here...

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Claire Coley's avatar

Immortalised for us to enjoy forever 💀

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Eric Ho's avatar

I’m fascinated by spiders. And your magical style of bringing them to life

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…thank you Eric…not to belabor spider analogies but i appreciate your eyes taking a look at this one ;)…

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Eric Ho's avatar

All two of them!!!

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

... this post is the web that Lemon never built... or wanted to build...

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...here on the web is their web...

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Claire Coley's avatar

Farewell young spider, you will be missed 🖤

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...lemon was a super good one...

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Josh Knox's avatar

You might appreciate this song I made recently. A Noiseless Patient Spider is a Walt Whitman poem, so this song laments a spider lost 150+ years ago...

https://open.spotify.com/track/1JhOK05b1dqBFuR3veunrF?si=366497e1871f48ed

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…thank you brother…ghost spiders!…

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miter's avatar

RIP lemon… real one.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…that was a seriously good spider…

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