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Elon Musk - A Modern Day Icarus

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Elon Musk

Flying too close to the sun

Like Icarus, his day is done

A depraved billionaire, with a heart of stone

In his evil wake lie shattered lives, of decency robbed and stripped to the bone

Gleefully, wielding a bare, bloodletting, chainsaw to hopes and dreams

Feels, knows and hears nothing, of the average man's, travails and silent screams.

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Steeped in apartheid and a High Priest of white supremacy

His modern-day ethos, an integral part of white South Africa's abominable legacy

Of plundering, looting and straight-up rapacious theft

Their 24/7 oppression a cause-celebre; causing mankind to be of dignity and hope, bereft

Apartheid's sadistic punishment of innoents equalling crimes against humanity

Safe-harboured by America's body politic and elevated by the pompous, high on their supply of empty vanity.

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