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Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in a village the world had not yet heard of. The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your first life began in a storm, under open sky. One winter night you ran your hand along a cat’s back, and the darkness cracked open with sparks. Your mother warned the house could burn. You were already chasing what you learned: Light would return. Your second life came underwater, in the current deep. No light, no air, the river pulling you under, the surface closing above you without a sound, and something in you refused to sink or sleep. Your third life came at the dam. The water rose. The wall held you in place. One flash, you turned your body and rose back into air, and left the weight of water without a trace. Your fourth life came in stone and dark. Entombed for a night in a mountain chapel, visited by no one. Only
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He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in a village the world had not yet heard of. The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your first life began in a storm, under open sky. One winter night you ran your hand along a cat’s back, and the darkness cracked open with sparks. Your mother warned the house could burn. You were already chasing what you learned: Light would return. Your second life came underwater, in the current deep. No light, no air, the river pulling you under, the surface closing above you without a sound, and something in you refused to sink or sleep. Your third life came at the dam. The water rose. The wall held you in place. One flash, you turned your body and rose back into air, and left the weight of water without a trace. Your fourth life came in stone and dark. Entombed for a night in a mountain chapel, visited by no one. Only
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla, He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in a village the world had not yet heard of. The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your first life began in a storm, under open sky. One winter night you ran your hand along a cat’s back, and the darkness cracked open with sparks. Your mother warned the house could burn. You were already chasing what you learned: Light would return. Your second life came underwater, in the current deep. No light, no air, the river pulling you under, the surface closing above you without a sound, and something in you refused to sink or sleep. Your third life came at the dam. The water rose. The wall held you in place. One flash, you turned your body and rose back into air, and left the weight of water without a trace. Your fourth life came in stone and dark. Entombed for a night in a mountain chapel, visited by no one. Only
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