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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
His toga rumpled high above his knees
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
It's one of many horrid happenings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
The wolf devours both sheep and shepherdess
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
Do bank clerks rule their abacus by thumb
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.