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He bent right down to pick up his valise
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
He bent right down and well what did he seize
One gathers rosebuds or grows old alone
It's one of many horrid happenings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
As sleeping-bags the silent landscape pave
Poetic licence needs no strain or stress
A piercint wit would sprightliest horses flog
On wheels the tourist follows hos hostess
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
And lessors' dates have all too short a sum


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.