Sticky Tangles

The spider spins
its sticky silk
a web to weave
to catch its prey;

but she who spins to weave
a web of tangled lies
to catch, deceive,
will but achieve
that she it is who's trapped,
caught, wrapped
in silky lies
that stick and trip to further slip:
unwise.

cf "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"  from Sir Walter Scott's epic poem "Marmion" (Canto VI, Stanza 17), published in 1808.

[IP: spinning]