The Proprietor Ordered Mousetraps

purple
was sabotaged
a woman of lower morals
hid her baggage in the bush

the train
brought jealousy
in the wrong box with
laura ingalls wilder books
sent to the mercantile the
proprietor ordered mousetraps
the little house on the prairie
was all-seeing

a woman
took a black
dress off the
clothesline rope
she cut one end of
the rope it fell to
the ground

apple pie carved
headstone under the
apple tree the ravens
voiced their opinion

boardwalk traffic
left a calling card
the cheese or the bullet
whichever one the proprietor
ordered mousetraps oh the humor

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist