Poem: As Genius Does: A Poem of Nikola Tesla

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This poem was prompted and sponsored by minor_architect. It features one of my favorite weird genius figures, Nikola Tesla.

As Genius Does:
A Poem of Nikola Tesla

Tesla coils survive today
Half-forgotten, tucked away.
Lightning caught by clever hands
Powers signals down the bands.

X-ray photos, radios --
Alternating current goes
At the end of quite a list,
And who knows what more was missed?

Wireless electric tech
Ultimately was a wreck
For the want of metered cost…
All of that potential lost.

Genius is as genius does --
Brighter spark there never was --
But he never understood
Human nature. Not so good.

Tesla scampered far afield
Finding fine ideas to wield,
All the rest of humankind
Shifted red and left behind.

Poor and lonely, Tesla died,
Stuffed away and left to slide.
Where the thoughts that filled his head?
Shifted blue and flown ahead.