Named Slitherer

Miss Took has become
friendly with Mister Home
and they are thieves in
search of a new pronouncement
to free them from their coils.

That's what snakes do with skins.
They say, I might be a spine
without straightness and my
esses may be messes that end
in a mouse in the middle,

but names are blame and
shame games and when
one loses one's edge,
there more than
two remain.