Overpaid Attention

Watch carefully.
You can be 
too careful.

Over-focus hocuses,
losing pocus
as performance degrades
to second-
fate tragic,

a magic whose claims
outstrip the hands
making mess
the only thing
professed.

Your money 
is never coming back,
guaranteed.

Your mind
once directed
has always been
where it was
directed.

Leave attention
in the meadow
and let it chase
the butterflies 
and the flowers.