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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
The understanding critic firstly sees
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
They both are right not untamed mutterings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


Raymond Queneau

Translation to English by Stanley Chapman
found in "Oulipo Compendium"
Atlas 1998, ISBN 0-947757-96-1

Idea and implementation by Magnus Bodin 1997
Produced in the wonderful country of Sweden.