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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
The bull's horns ought to dry it like a bone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
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.