Tesla

There can’t be a beautiful deal on

EVs having no steering wheel on,

Since tariffs make Tes-

La lose value—which says

Au revoir between Donald and Elon!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the Futurism article, “Trump’s Tariffs Are Wrecking Elon Musk’s Hail Mary to Save Tesla.”