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From playboy Chance the nymph no longer flees
The answer is they could be twins full-grown
The Turks said just take anything you please
And empty cages show life's bird has flown
Old Galileo's Pisan offerings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
The learning linguist cameramaniac sings
For burning bushes never fish forgave
When dried the terrapin can naught express
A bird-brain banquet melts bold Mistress Mog
To prove mamma an adult with a tress
Bard I adore your endless monologue
Where no one bothered how one warmed one's bum
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.