homuncular

As I recall, the recipe
involved man-sperm
and horse manure

Incubated in a flask
with special oils, herbs
and more - no "eye of newt!"
These alchemists

were no witchcrafty
charlatans, but proto-science
men! I guess

They never quite recovered, then
from that black eye: the whole lead/gold
dichotomy - which, unresolved
and unfulfilled made jokes of them.
And they got old, and so
dissolved
themselves in tasks uncanny
and arcane, and eldritch -
secret stuff! Most bold of which:

Homunculus.

Don't scoff
at this disgusting chap!
A little tiny man, grown-up

from horse crap

and from jerking off