Oh, Elon Musk,
a tycoon of endeavour,
Thou hast taken on a task
to scrap conventionalism whatever!
Thy SpaceX Falcon daring,
Thy breakthrough Hyperloop
make us think of the cube,
keep oiling our mind's ball-bearing!
Oh, Elon Musk,
Have mercy upon us!
We cannot swallow
what we have to chew,
and Thy exorbitant ambition to eschew!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
As I teach oral translation to my students we once or twice took Musk's speech to interpret. His figure is a sort of interest to me, as he< believe, is gonna and already is, change the world, though his ambitions and projects may seem a bit far-fetched. The piece I submitted is just an attempt to place the man in our conventional environment