The Spoon Bender Justifies Diminishing Spoon Bending Powers at the Tribunal for Telekinesis

 

In heaven I’ll be given

a position in middle management 

as once I willed an apple mid-flight

 

to land in a bin and it did.

In summer I beckon mosquitoes

to send their kind 

 

to sing in my ear at night

and they obey.

When my therapist asked me

 

if I ever feel

I can control external events

and my answer was yes

 

she looked up from her notes 

and said ‘really?’—

which is exactly what I wanted to happen.