Early to wake, you made like the genius,
declaimed wildly, leapt between calculations, lusted over factories
and drew wild designs with an interminable finger
in sand spilled from an hourglass. Added quicker, distilled it faster - not an hour had passed
before you swore it was ready. The apothecary gods watched from their perches on the shelves above.
Eagerly, you let the smoke dissipate.
What did you find?
Matter irreducible, an unworkable core.
You had come to an end of yourself,
and still the blackened brain of paper on the floor
belched out only
---- silence.
declaimed wildly, leapt between calculations, lusted over factories
and drew wild designs with an interminable finger
in sand spilled from an hourglass. Added quicker, distilled it faster - not an hour had passed
before you swore it was ready. The apothecary gods watched from their perches on the shelves above.
Eagerly, you let the smoke dissipate.
What did you find?
Matter irreducible, an unworkable core.
You had come to an end of yourself,
and still the blackened brain of paper on the floor
belched out only
---- silence.