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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
That suede ferments is not at all well known
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
He's gone to London how the echo rings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
It's no good rich men crying Heaven Bless
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
Poor Yorick comes to bury not address
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.