(Nicola Tesla spent his life hemmed in by mysterious forces which would not let him rise. Today we know those forces to have a name: Thomas Alva Edison.
Tesla would have given us our energy for free. Edison was aligned with those presently making huge profits on this need.
You do the math.)
*****
he said
i was actually
quite happy there at the end
with my birds
i’d let it all go
by then, you see —
glory and the
struggle for glory
knew my own
contribution to have been,
somehow,
successfully made
or as successfully
as i could manage, anyway
i could rest, then, and
dream
always did
love to dream
like a child at play
in the fields of the mind…
all the people around me saw,
of course, was:
low rent
‘what a comedown’
‘such a tragedy’
called me paranoid
too
they generally do
when you have little money
but can see the future
*****
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