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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
That suede ferments is not at all well known
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
Victorious worms grind all into the grave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
With gravity at gravity's great cog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
Fried grilled black pudding's still the world's best yum


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.