shut your trap

these cruel inventions, pitfalls worked up to trip you.

toying at nothing, clambering up the slick walls.

you are a boisterous disaster, a capful of burning mint.

you cleaned out my bank and hung me from the collar of my shirt

you are a low groan that threatens to sweetly rise to fighting pitch.

but it was me that tricked you! I promise it was,

I feigned, I faltered, I forced you to fall.