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The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Upon his old oak chest he cuts his cheese
That suede ferments is not at all well known
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The genealogist with field and fess
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
With marble souvenirs then fill a slum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum


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.