It took a throwback like
Tesla
with better than photographic memory
at a time when the photo
itself was a
marvel
the high priest of the
marriage of science and
magic
to reach for a
technique so
ancient it was modern
snatching songs sighs and
soliloquies
shared secrets
out of the very air
like the songcatchers of the old
Western plains long before
anyone
thought to name the place
America
to coolly yet respectfully
seduce Nature and
harness the secrets yielded
for the good of all
and a people
such as we
inured for centuries to a trade in
solid goods
now gladly give over our
dollars
for air
for sights and sounds and
information to
share
a people suffused with all manner of
knowledge
ye stunningly out of tune
bewitched
by the speed
of the exchange missing the
substance
and not caring
and in the invisible recesses
of time
Tesla's tears
cascade
like
Niagara
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