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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
Since Elgin left his nostrils in the stone
Old corned-beef's rusty armour spreads disease
'Ere meanings new to ancient tribes are thrown
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
A wise loaf always knows its humblest crumb


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.