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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
Her native chauffeur waited in the breeze
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
With marble souvenirs then fill a slum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum


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.