Piso Senex et Sempermutabilisyllabi

Piso has grown old. For years, people have been telling Piso how to write his own poetry.

They’ve wanted it to sound like the legendary poet, Vergilimartivenallus, widely considered the GOAT, but Piso doesn’t take suggestions from those who don’t write any poetry of their own. Besides, that would change Piso’s verses into something they aren’t—someone else’s. He’s got plenty of advocates, anyway.

But the mob persists, and keeps trying to get Piso to change how he writes. Mysteriously, the more Piso tries to write in his own voice, the more things start to get a bit…strange.

Piso Senex et Sempermutabilisyllabi contains just 18 cognates and 26 other Latin words (excluding names, different forms of words, and meaning established within the text), and this tiny little books is under 800 total words in length.