Who Needs A Centipede?

Image from the cover of Tony Ross’ book: The Financial Centipede: Waiting for the Next 99 Shoes to Drop

Who needs a centipede?
Who needs 100 legs?
Who needs an arthropod
with high-maintenance shoes?
It scares the heck out of schoolgirls
and gives boys ideas for torture.
One leg off; 99 to go.
Who’s counting and who cares?
The centipede does.
It hates to walk with a limp.