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Tesla Vs. Edison

By John Coggin
Tesla v Edison

Illustration by Damehi Laloo

Last night the star I named Tesla twinkled at midnight

and all my baroque proposals and obtuse observations

in science freighted through my mind with new ardor.

Back in the lab, my agonizing conundrums dissipated to sweet harmony

as truth arrowed into my consciousness from heavenly archers.

Madness, yes, for a scientist to be shrieking eureka

after stargazing, but this flower in the sky has glowed in me

from PhD to postdoc to the wild dark matter beyond.

It could only have been Nikola Tesla.

Rocketing through my work

then lighting my way to a good cool sleep.

Why do brownout mornings follow starry nights?

Self-doubt at dawn robbed me,

alpha to omega,

of all my august notions.

My superconducting science slowed to a creep.

I plowed along in the dirt of my lab like an ox.

Only feeling the thwack of the whip.

Only seeing what’s two feet in front of me.

One spirit in science could have yoked me to such mediocrity.

Thomas Edison.


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Posted On: February 6, 2023
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