Jump Back!

Jump back!
Here it comes again!
Whirring, screaming, shrieking
Out to destroy!

Jump back!
It moves again!
Forward backwards
Everywhere!

Jump back!
It’s sucking up!
It’s sucking the floor into its mouth!
Jump back lest it swallow you whole!

Silence
Don’t trust it
Jump back!
It doesn’t move

Silence
Sniff it
It has been defeated!
Prance in your victory



Dedicated to my cats, and their ever present fear of my vacuum cleaner.