a silver coin...

Silver is an interesting thing. It's supposed to destroy lycanthropes, that is, were-creatures. Probably cuz it's also supposed to be a holy metal, either that or since silver leaf is used to make mirrors, and that eville creatures that look into mirrors perish, it's powerful. Meh. At any rate, a silver coin is a valuable thing. And I have one in my room.

A Silver Coin

Spinning slowly slowly
Round and round
A small bright mirror
From it a reflection's found

Picked up and dropped
Into a felt pocket of coins
It's hard to tell the value
But we know it brightly shines

From out of the corner a gleam
The guard's eye it catches
Cross my palm with silver
To go through the King's passes

An old crone comes up
Peddling magical charms and more
A silver coin will pay for them
For something, or a whore

The man in the dark sees
How you killed the bumbling fool
He wants a pretty coin no less
To be silent, to avoid a duel

A bribe, a payment, a silencer
Strange how so simple it is
When a small flat round of metal
Can bring such useful practical bliss

Shit. I think I've been reading too much Forgotten Realms. Oh well.

Jin out.

chemistry...

Something interesting I learned in chemistry: entropy (the measure of chaos in a system) has a natural tendency to increase, that is become more chaotic. The general idea is that it is more logical for stuff to become messed up than to be neatly packed. The only way to reverse this is to apply a force/energy/effort to the system in the effort to make it more orderly. That means, the universe is constantly becoming more and more chaotic. The entropy of the universe is constantly increasing. Which kind of explains my life. Meh.

chaotic muse

what do you know
nothing
what do you feel
nothing
what do you understand
nothing

she whispers
it all becomes clear
that nothing makes sense
nothing is orderly
nothing is complete
nothing is there
all is a big mess
a crater of dust
specks swirling in the wind
scrabling themselves ever forward
and we cannot stop it
ever

what do you know
nothing
what do you feel
nothing
what do you understand
nothing

Jin out.