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He bent right down to pick up his valise
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
He bent right down and well what did he seize
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
When dried the terrapin can naught express
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Suits lisping Spanish tongues for whom say some
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.