Lilliputian

[vagabond]

Lilliputian

Tease,
call me
scavenger.

So I had to
steal, beg, and bribe:

Steeple keepers,
captains, fishermen,
merchants, ferrymen,
nagsmen, magicians,

those noose men

whose squareknots, overhands,
bowlines & sheetbends
are now loosed,
stretched into
straight lengths;

Tangled nets
forever unwoven,        the untangling nets made me think of fading integrity.. if intentional: the noose men´s integrity? 
pulled & driven,           I´d put this line above forever unwoven, just cause nets can´t pull anymore afterwards. forever is a big word, maybe just "unwoven"

prayers,
asking integrity's strength.            

I like the words and metaphors, as well as integrity as content of a prayer. 
what I don´t quite understand are the first two stanzas, why the subject would or did steal, also not sure what was stolen  (probably just me, not getting it)