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[savath]

Our time in Chicago is coming to an end. I hope to squeeze in another visit or two with the Wizard and a few with the family.

Then I'm running back to you Bay Area...

"What matters more than practice
is the fact that you, my audience,
are pulling for me, want me to pull
it off-this next sleight. Now
you see it. Something more than
whether I succeed’s at stake.

This talk is called patter. This
is misdirection-how my left
hand shows you nothing’s in it.
Nothing is. I count on your mistake
of caring. In my right hand your
undoing blooms like cancer.

But I’ve shown you that already-
empty. Most tricks are done
before you think they’ve started-you
who value space more than time.
The balls, the cards, the coins-they go
into the past, not into my pocket.

If I give you anything, be sure
it’s not important. What I keep
keeps me alive-a truth on which
your interest hinges. We are like
lovers, if you will. Sometimes even
if you don’t will. Now you don’t."

-Gary Miranda