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He bent right down to pick up his valise
His nasal ecstasy beats best Cologne
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
The thumb- and finger-prints of Al Capone
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
That metred rhyme alone can souls enslave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
The nicest kids for strickiest toffees crave
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
And starve the sniveling baby like a dog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Southern baroque's seductive dialogue
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
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.