Master of Innuendo

She is a master of innuendo

The suggested phrase

The connotation

As with the description

Of pictures she had

If she dared use them

Or the criticism she titled

An addition to a paragraph

To suggested how illiterate

And ill-informed the author

Of the original was

Polictians call it deniability

To give that innocent shrug

While asking,

“Whatever did you mean?”

When the lightning bolt

Hits you right between the eyes

Daring you to find

As clever a way to strike back,

Staring straight into your eyes

Like a hired gun,

Knowing you can’t draw down

When you use a blunt instrument

Rather than a scalpel

You can’t win a war of words like that

Her sharp shooter already drawing

By the time you reach for yours,

Her rapier sticking away at your vital parts

As your broad sword clatters on the ground

Her look so innocent you even thought

She committed the crime,

You always asking her for forgiveness

Even as she leaves her bloody

Fingerprints on your brow