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He bent right down to pick up his valise
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
It's one of many horrid happenings
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
With gravity at gravity's great cog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
And let you off from your opinions glum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


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.