THE MAGICIAN'S TOOLS

{ in memory of Franz Wright }


By what criteria may one identify
a worthy doctor? For that matter

How does one go about determining
the veracity of their child's school teacher?

Trick questions covered by 
insurance policies. Every institution 
holds its fair share of nuts squarely in place

From the warden's staff down to the student inmates
The trick is learning how to spell correctly
the trick to thinking, that is 

We may think of it as magic
where the letters of the words
in a literal sense conjure reality 

I think of it as writing