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The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
The understanding critic firstly sees
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
Thou homestead hillside woodland rock and cave
When dried the terrapin can naught express
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
One misses cricket hearth and croaking frog
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
Soliloquies predict great things old chum


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.