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At five precisely out went La Marquise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
His toga rumpled high above his knees
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
The fasting fakir doesn't smell the less
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
The best of all things to an end must come


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.