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Don Pedro from his shirt has washed the fleas
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
Forms shadowy with indecision wheeze
That suede ferments is not at all well known
O Parthenon you hold the charger's strings
Signalling gauchos very rarely shave
A daring baron pockets precious Mings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
Staunch pilgrims longest journeys can't depress
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
From cool Parnassus down to wild Loch Ness
Their sculptors did our best our hulks the clog
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
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.