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At five precisely out went La Marquise
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
The showman gargles fire and sword with ease
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Rejecting ermine to become a knave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
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.