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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
That suede ferments is not at all well known
It's one of many horrid happenings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
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.