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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
The understanding critic firstly sees
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Suits lisping Spanish tongues for whom say some
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.