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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
They both are right not unformed smatterings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


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.