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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
That horders of crooks felt they'd more right to own
Upon his old oak chest he cuts his cheese
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Filching the lolly country thrift helped save
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
As sleeping-bags the silent landscape pave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Ventriloquists be blowed you strike me dumb
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.