Remote Viewing

Let's workshop this poem about our friends of the 'evil eye,' color-personalized auras, telekinesis, bleeding statues, dowsing, pyramidology, spontaneous human combustion, house hauntings

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Remote Viewing

It is not labeled “thirteen”
(the hotel, after all, must
kowtow to superstition),

and yet we find ourselves—
in a pathetic case of stacking
idiocy upon idiocy—

sincerely relieved to rest
our heads on what amounts to
the actual thirteenth floor?

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