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[rayheinrich]

I don't know how centipedes follows from what the first three lines say, but I like it regardless.

The centipede follows
on a hundred little feet.

It sits looking
through fallen leaves
on silent haunches
then moves on.

Concerning the picture, I suppose that is a nonvenomous centipede, but even so, I would never willingly let one walk on my arm. I've never seen anything that big in person, we only had millipedes, mostly when turning over a rock.

Dale

I haven't seen any that big; but my mom, while studying various species
of moss in South America, regularly came across them. Mom: "They're
venomous, but if you hold them right behind the head they can't bite you."

Not me, not ever, no how.

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