About A Benjamin III: Boardley, Not Bradley

from Dear Innovare...The Souls of Ignored Pioneers Shall Be Renowned by Ospreyshire

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Originator: Benjamin Boardley (often misspelled as Benjamin Bradley)

Innovation: Steam engine

Suspects: Various racist jerks who wanted to steal his steam engine due to his status as a slave

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I didn't care anymore how my last name was spelled after my time on earth
Just know that I was an innovator people haven't heard of
My family and I were in bondage in the Old Line State
Whenever I could, I'd learn from the children of my captors
That education would come to use
Printer offices and the Naval Academy would see my intellect
Too bad my captors got most of my pay
My greatest achievement involved gun barrels, pewter, steel, and random junk
With this mechanical trash came the first steam engine
My patent was denied even when my brainchild bought my family's freedom
Don't deny my innovations

By the way, steampunks. You're ever so welcome.

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from Dear Innovare...The Souls of Ignored Pioneers Shall Be Renowned, released December 27, 2019

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Ospreyshire Illinois

Spoken word verses coalesce with brief acousmatic and experimental noises in such urgent timing. This microcosm of experimentation is the M.O. of Curtis M. AKA Ospreyshire. Is he a poet who dabbles in the avant-garde or an abstract artist who uses free verse poems? Ospreyshire could care less and just release these crystalized moments in sonic form. ... more