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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
They both are right not untamed mutterings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
That every verbal shock aims to deprave
It's no good rich men crying Heaven Bless
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Whiskey will always wake an Irish bog
With marble souvenirs then fill a slum
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.