chump change

Change, chump. 
Change. Every con artist 
in the game has you marked 

out, set up on their prospect easel 
and is plotting a quick and easy
masterpiece. They're 

circling 'round
in converging arcs
like sharks fast approaching 
the frenzied feast, and you 

- blithe, naïve and doot-di-doo, 
stand in grinning and wide-eyed
sacrifice. Change, chump!

Change

this moment. Now 

This deal is about to come off 
quite nice. That grin of yours, almost
painfully dopey and sweet!

All hands on deck
and swept out to sea,

as the calmest day 
in a hundred Julys 

turns suddenly in its depths
to wrenching surprise