Large Fierce Mammal

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Last evening Mrs. LFM and I watched the most recent episode of Supernatural. There was a scene in a private club for witches, and as the camera followed our stars through a room, it passed over a well turned out couple who were engaged in a game of chess using only their minds to move the pieces. Each was sitting in a decidedly tense and uncomfortable posture, staring fixedly at the game board, and the ambiance of it all made me wonder why you’d put yourself through so much stress and strain just to do something more easily effected by more orthodox means.

That got me thinking about how movies and television depict telekinetic powers – they’re either completely effortless, or enough to make you bust a gut. More often than not, they come most easily to the bad guys, and harder to the good. That was when this popped into my head, fully formed, and I started laughing. One of those things that had to be noted down then or be lost forever. I’m not sure if you should be thankful or not.

Mind Games

By LFM

You think it’s smooth,
Yet takes much strain,
To move a thing with just your brain.
I called a book from off the shelf,
And doing that, I shit myself.