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At snuff no Cornish sailorman would sneeze
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
The roundabout eats profits made on swings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
And let you off from your opinions glum
For Europe's glory while Fate's harpies strum


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.