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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
The bull's horns ought to dry it like a bone
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
They both are right not untamed mutterings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
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.