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At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
The understanding critic firstly sees
That suede ferments is not at all well known
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
Nought can the mouse's timid nibbling stave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The peasants's skirts on rainy days she'd tress
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
Socrates watched his hemlock effervesce
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
They're kings we're mammal-cousins hi ho hum


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.