THE MENTALIST

   What Patrick Jane has over everyone
   on his investigative team is that
   he is not just more clever but more fun
   in how the finds and foils each dirty rat.

   Though not a psychic but a mentalist,
   he has no super powers as a sleuth
   yet keenly sees what other eyes have missed
   while all along they’re staring at the truth.

   By inference, deduction and sheer wit,
   Jane, thread by thread, undoes the tangled web
   of evil and deception, bit by bit,
   exposing both the kingpin and the pleb.

        Of what does such mentality consist?
        To know that brain beats brawn and wit tops fist.

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