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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
It's one of many horrid happenings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
With gravity at gravity's great cog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Suits lisping Spanish tongues for whom say some
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.