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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
While sharks to let's say potted shrimps are prone
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
When flame a form to wrath ancestral gave
In salads all chew grubs before they've wings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
And played their mountain croquet jungle chess
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
Poor reader smile before your lips go numb
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


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.