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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
'Ere meanings new to ancient tribes are thrown
It's one of many horrid happenings
With sombre thoughts they grimly line the nave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
With gravity at gravity's great cog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum


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.