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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise His exaltation shocked both youth and crone Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings Signalling gauchos very rarely shave Such merchandise a melancholy brings That every verbal shock aims to deprave Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess With gravity at gravity's great cog Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce With breaking voice across the Alps they slog On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum And lessors' dates have all too short a sum |