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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
The understanding critic firstly sees
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
The frisian Isles my friends are cherised things
The North Wind Bites into his architrave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
The genealogist with field and fess
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
While homeward thirsts to each quenched glass say yes
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
Soliloquies predict great things old chum


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.