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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
It's one of many horrid happenings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
It's no good rich men crying Heaven Bless
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
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.