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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
Normal one aims to be and share the throne
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
An icicle of frozen marrow pings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
With quill white-collared through his life will jog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
With breaking voice across the Alps they slog
And let you off from your opinions glum
yet from the City's pie pulled not one plum


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.