Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Serious Alchemy

Trade winds brought precious
ingredients, stolen whence they
first emerged: peridot, chalcedony
... 17 jewels , wound once a day:
Bonfires at night delighted all
along the levees in the time of
fool/kings practising piracy
to create the wealth of nations.
-inspired by Samuel Pepys, 1666

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