Snithe a piece off with thy knife.

Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.

Gag me with a spoon, I said. He scratched his head.

When metaphors vault and infinitives do the splits, / When predicates stumble and a verb masquerades as a noun, / The writer may not be out of his wits / But only a grandiloquist putting us down.