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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
He bent right down and well what did he seize
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
It's one of many horrid happenings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
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.