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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
As sleeping-bags the silent landscape pave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum


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.