For today’s prompt, write a trap poem. There are physical traps—like mouse traps and bear traps. But people also sometimes fall into language traps or social traps. Many competitive types in business and various games try to set traps for their competitors. Of course, for every person setting a trap, there’s likely another person trying to avoid falling into traps.
Trap
We are told today
there is a huge spike
in domestic violence
Men trapped with their wives
Trapped with their children
Trapped without sports
Trapped with only the bottles
at the back of the home bar left
Trapped in all the space
they could once barely pay for.
Trapped within their father's face.
But she is there - always there -
doing everything wrong.
There are two releases left
and both leave her
curled in a ball
a scream echoing
off the small walls.
pathetic.
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