Today we will be looking at the poem "Allowables" by Nikki Giovanni. 

For more info on Nikki Giovanni: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikki-giovanni

Poem Transcription: 

I killed a spider

Not a murderous brown recluse

Nor even a black widow

And if the truth were told this

Was only a small

Sort of papery spider

Who should have run

When I picked up the book

But she didn’t

And she scared me

And I smashed her

I don’t think

I’m allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened