obsessive
to the point of hallucination
or delusion
pigeons as companions
mushroom towers connecting minds
Twain visited
Einstein revered
all of New Jersey stepped back
brilliance seems to come at a cost
as time tells the story of invention of genius of inventive insight
sage or martyr ingenue or despot
he lived both doing each with fervor
unmatched by his time unmatched by all of time
we live in the world we do in part because he was