Solutions

Book Cover Illustration by Tom Adams

 

the magus knows all

secret sorcery

stirred in the boneyard

by light of ill moons

poison potions for sale

to panjandrums

in want of some wisdom

congenital addlepates

desperate for any advantage

to compensate moiety

minds of half measure

in need of black magic

some potent elixir

to grow common sense

where a wayward

tomfoolery flourishes

nothing too difficult

quick easy answers

the coin of the realm

spare the prayers

theirs is not holy work

no souls in danger

when they do not believe

in the soul to begin with

the prize demands

pay any price

and they will

fingers crossed that

the devil’s own agent

this once and this only

won’t sell them a lie

but if worse comes to worst

what’s a few dozen more

of our children who die