The tale of......... :)

                                                                             The Spider!   

Spider - many legs
but how far does he get
round and round his private web
of interlocking net?

The Spider does not see beyond
the next meal on his plate.
His eyes are large, his focus small,
he doesn't like to wait.

In fact his uncle grew quite sick
of watching this display.
Such truly shocking indolence
was not at all the way.

"It's time you took up sport!"
quoth he. "Eradicate that girth
or one day you'll end up as quite
the fattest bloke on earth!

"Remember Spider Marmaduke
whose fame the bards still sing!
He climbed a thread so high he won
the envy of a King.

"So get up! Shape up! Climb up!
Forsake your prison bars!
Get off that dreary tread-mill
and fast track to the stars!"