Ode to a Genius
When you lived in a modest little white house in Princeton,
you thought big ideas.
You said it was relative…
time and light and energy…
You wore your hair wild as tumbleweed
when you stuck your tongue out at some lucky photographer.
You didn’t know that
we wouldn’t let you take back your biggest,
your most powerful, your most frightening idea
when you lived in a modest little white house in Princeton.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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