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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
For tea cucumber sandwiches a scone
The Turks said just take anything you please
That suede ferments is not at all well known
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
Etruscan words which Greece and Rome engrave
Poetic licence needs no strain or stress
Shallots and sharks'fins face the smould'ring log
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
But I can understand you Brogher Gog
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
Fried grilled black pudding's still the world's best yum


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.