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When one with t'other straightaway agrees
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
How it suprised us pale grey underlings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
He's gone to London how the echo rings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
Emboggled minds may puff and blow and guess
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
The country lane just thrives on farmyard mess
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
The Taj Mahal has trinkets spice and gum
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.