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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
The Turks said just take anything you please
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
When dried the terrapin can naught express
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
The best of all things to an end must come


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.