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At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
With cherry-pips his cottage floor is sown
They both are right not untamed mutterings
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
The fasting fakir doesn't smell the less
In indian summers Englishmen drink grog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
Soliloquies predict great things old chum


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.