A Trillionaire

Gilded sphere containing Tesla's ashes. Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

Let none admire

That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best

Deserve the precious bane.

—Milton, Paradise Lost 690–92

Like other folk, to be rich my desire,

With in second place the fat fruit of fame,

I stormed high Heaven with unholy fire,

Robbing old NickyTesla of his name!

And now, surrounded by my bodyguards,

With legal legions spent in just deserts,

I tower trillioned over Gaia's shards—

The landfill left of what was once the Earth’s.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026