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The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
The Turks said just take anything you please
'Ere meanings new to ancient tribes are thrown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
That every verbal shock aims to deprave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum


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.