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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
'Ere meanings new to ancient tribes are thrown
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
Were pots graffiti'd over by a slave
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
In indian summers Englishmen drink grog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum


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.