The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
With gravity at gravity's great cog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
No need to cart such treasures from the fog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum