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Scary Book Poem

There's a hippo in a tree Looking down at you There are cats on legs like buses That want to chase you There are bees like ferrets That can barely buzz around you There's a giant sea dog It wants to grab and eat you But they are afraid Of you, with your green hair Of you, with your red horns Of you, with your sixteen legs Of you, size of the moon With your scary books in your arms

The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus #13

SECTION VII.    Know ye then, O Sons of Science, there are seven bodies, of which gold is the first, the most perfect, the king of them, and their head, which neither the earth can corrupt nor fire devastate, nor the water change, for its complexion is equalised, and its nature regulated with respect to heat, cold, and moisture; nor is there anything in it which is superfluous, therefore the philosophers do buoy up and magnify themselves init saying that this gold, in relation of other bodies. is, as the sun amongst the stars, more splendid in Light; and as, by the power of God, every vegetable and all the fruits of the earth are perfected, so gold by the same power sustainneth all. For as dough without a ferment cannot be fermented so when thou sublimest the body and purifiest it, separating the uncleanness from it, thou wilt then conjoin and mix them together, and put in the ferment confecting the earth and water. Then will the Ixir ferment even as dough d

Star Poem

Summer, Tabby on a star It's very hot, it's very far From Mother Earth, a little blue dot Getting home would cost a lot From there a bus would take years A rocket faster, but then who steers? So Tabby, Summer on a star Collect stardust in a jar Build a house with a huge aircon A big yard, they felt they'd won Look up at night, you'll see them there House of stardust, look close,a stair Of moondust. Go up, be quiet, they may be asleep It's a long way, it's very steep Look, there in a bed, see you must Girls made of stars like diamond dust