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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
He bent right down and well what did he seize
Which neither time nor tide can long postpone
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
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.