SLEIGHT OF HAND

Pull a coin

from behind

the same ear

again and again

and your audience

will only see

one trick, not many,

regardless of what

your hands

are doing,

and the spell

will be broken.

In the same token,

the more you

repeat yourself

in an effort to

make a particular

point, the less trust

you’ll evoke. Redundancy

will be the enemy.

And any attempt at magic

will vanish, revealing
the hoax at hand
and the feigned 
currency within it.