Chemistry (sort of)

By luigi_pagano

Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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I wanted to be an alchemist,
change base metal into gold
and be the first to succeed
but relaised I was too old.

I knew that what I needed
was expertise, not sophistry 
but I had never managed
to learn organic chemistry.

I had enrolled in a course
but later I had to switch.
Many chemical symbols
are like seeds that a witch

scatters into a boiling pot
to make a magic potion
the recipe of which we
won't have any notion.

I tried  the Macbeth trick
of “Double, double, toil
and trouble”, with drops
of vinegar and cod liver oil

but all I got was nothing
but a great liquid bubble.
I still do not know why
I went to all that trouble.

 
© Luigi Pagano 2024

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Comments

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Thank you, Jacques. We take potluck in everything we do.

Cheers, Luigi

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

This made me smile, Luigi. A metalwork coarse was the closest I've come to alchemy. Vinegar and cod liver oil sound like a remedy for modern ailments.

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Hi Jane. You had the advantage over me. At least you had metal whereas I had lost my mettle. laugh

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Round about the cauldron go, in the poison’d entrails throw

Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble

For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble

Sir Isaac Newton's main (pre-) occupation was Alchemy. Goes to show, there must be something to it.

All the best Luigi! & Nolan

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

One has to keep trying, Nolan You never know, they say they can do anything with AI.

Keep well, Luigi

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

I don't believe in Artificial Intelligence Luigi, for instance on this page a popup asked me "do you want to translate this page into afrikaans? and if you do ask it says, no it can't”. So that's now for you a starter. And if there was a artificial intelligence, it has to be artificial. I mean it's the same computers the same programming languages, hardware, internet etc. There is one instance I think it really works that is computer chess.

Tom Brown

 

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Hello Tom. When it comes to artificial intelligence, Afrikaans, or computer chess I am a complete ignoramus, I'm afraid.

Cheers.