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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
He bent right down and well what did he seize
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
That every verbal shock aims to deprave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


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.