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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
His exaltation shocked both youth and crone
The understanding critic firstly sees
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
The fertile mother changelings drops like kings
To break a rule Britannia's might might waive
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
Poor Yorick comes to bury not address
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum


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.