An Ode To The Mob — Jeff Mach Writes

My friend, my friend, please, allay;

It was always going to be that way.

One thing of which humans ought not be proud?

Humans, humans, in a crowd.

When Telsa with success almost brushed,

He need to be quickly crushed

Here’s a tiny little tiff:
Forget unlimited power from Wardenclyffe.

Tesla was strange. Tesla was weird.

Little mustache. Never a beard.

Very weird. Let’s be realistic.

Tesla was probably really autistic.

Edison was a promoter

And a bit of a steal-your-coat-er

Of the two geniuses in question

Edison’s more worth arrestin’.

The truth? You can’t handle.
Falsehood’s a bonfire, truth a birthday candle.

There’s an Edison, New Jersey. That’s power.

And then there’s an abandoned Tesla tower.

Here are some hard truths
Please feel free to inspect them:
Who knows what delicate wonders are gone
For want of the strength to protect them?

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(This is a restatement of Bruce Lee’s quote by Dr. Han, the antagonist in “Enter The Dragon”: “Who knows what delicate wonders have died out from the world…for want of the strength to protect them?”)

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My name is Jeff Mach (“Dark Lord” is optional) and I build communities, put on events, and make stories come into being. I also tweet a lot over @darklordjournal.

I write books. You should read them!