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The acid tongue with gourmet's expertise
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
They both are right not unformed smatterings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
A piercint wit would sprightliest horses flog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Bard I adore your endless monologue
On fish-slab whale nor seal has never swum
yet from the City's pie pulled not one plum


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.