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The marble tomb gapes wide with jangling keys
Through snobbish growing round her hemline zone
Replies like this the dumbstruck brain may tease
And loudly sang off-key without a tone
It's one of many horrid happenings
The North Wind Bites into his architrave
Th'outrageous Thames a troubled arrow slings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
The genealogist with field and fess
Or grinning like a pale-faced golliwog
The colonel's still escutcheoned in undress
Lobsters for sale must be our apologue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
The bell tolls fee-less fi-less fo-less fum


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.