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The wild horse champs the Parthenon's top frieze
Licks round carved marble chops on snails full-blown
Her native chauffeur waited in the breeze
That suede ferments is not at all well known
Oh how oh how he hates such pilferings
Whose ocean still-born herrings madly brave
Proud death quite il-le-gi-ti-mate-ly stings
In purest cradels tha's how they behave
Platonic Greece was not so talentless
One tongue will do to keep the verse agog
Watching manure and compost coalesce
We'll suffocate before the epilogue
Though bretzels take the dols from board-room drum
In cognac brandy is Bacardi rum?


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.