Flickering Neon Palm

Let's workshop this poem about the often-overlooked modesty and self-restraint shown by some of the most gifted and powerful humans ever to live: the palm readers and spirit mediums among us

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Flickering Neon Palm 

We cannot help 
but admire their humility:
psychics and mediums,
telekinetic surgeons,

could seize so much
adoration and power 
(foiling terror plots, 
zapping tumors, finding

sex-trafficked toddlers),
but instead they work
fairground booths
and hotlines for shit.

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