Tesla and I

On the top of the world I

in the poet”s tower

up up there

in the gray sky

letting my thought out

singing in full voice

it is all rock and roll

it is all in those blades of grass

on the Bryant Park lawn

where Nikola Tesla fed

his beloved

white dove

she then flew to him

to the stone tower

landed on the edge

of the New Yorker

Hotel window sill

up up there in the clouds

on the 33rd floor

in the garret

where they wed

among the stone faced griffons

as witnesses

where I dwell now

Among narrow gothic walls

Encircling his ascetic bed

trying to get into his head

to write a sonnet about

how he tamed Niagara falls

how he lit the first electric city

how he discovered magnetic waves

and about the earth energy

and the eternity

he knew

writing

the great American ode

reciting it with gusle

as if it were a Serbian epic poem

about how he ended up here

the wizard

isolated and forgotten

although he changed the world

we live in

his world

lives in

my poem

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