Tongue's Tangeled Trap

Aah! 
That fatal slip
tongue's tangled trap
bites back
revealing duplicitous
whispered coos; confessions
of brilliant, enthralling lies
suspected, yet undetected 
until,
like a prized peach pit,
her name is slip spit;
intended as that
of mine.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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