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At five precisely out went La Marquise
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
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.