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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
When masons clutch the breath we held on loan
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
It's one of many horrid happenings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
The genealogist with field and fess
What things we did we went the whole darned hog
The country lane just thrives on farmyard mess
No need to cart such treasures from the fog
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
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.