Lifestyle File Poem by John Sensele

Wiles and guiles for a while pull
Wool over observers' ploys and receivers' coy eyes
But a dime time comes when the most floundering fool
Sees the light, flees his plight and pricks open packs of lies.

Wiles and guiles pile up a senile file
Into bottles and throttles infected by russet rust
Which fiddlers, sticklers and swindlers smear into a galleon gears
A little dose at a time until traitors undermine tangible trust.

Wiles and guiles mount debts in sentimental accounts
Kept in several gut huts swept clean with palm frond brooms
That suck every speck of skirt until a ring referee counts
A lame dame out when squealing and scampering are grudge grooms.

Wiles and guiles peel off the crust of trust and conceal dromedary deals
Struck with a Berber warrior, a Bedouin wanderer and a Fulani camel herder
Who in disgust at a breach of trust squeals
Until a house of cards collapses at the feet of a senior church elder.