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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
The bull's horns ought to dry it like a bone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
They both are right not untamed mutterings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum


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.