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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
That suede ferments is not at all well known
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
The North Wind Bites into his architrave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
Till firemen come with hose-piped tidal wave
It's no good rich men crying Heaven Bless
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
A wise loaf always knows its humblest crumb


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.