MUSK

An entrepreneur

creates an electric car

make my house run

on the energy of the sun

creates an electric car

and then sends 

rockets into space

in the hope that someday

we may live among the stars.

I peruse the list 

of his accomplishments 

and wonder if I am somehow 

less of a man

if all I can manage

is to tap a few words onto a page,

teach a few things that I know

to those who are younger than me,

or hang Christmas lights 

from the unsteady eaves

of my house without falling,

back first, onto the cracked

slab of my driveway.