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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
To one sweet hour of bliss my memory clings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
The genealogist with field and fess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum


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.