This is part of the complete Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Free verse" is a bonus exercise, not to be found in Raymond Queneau's original Exercices de Style nor in the translations.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
Home:
Quiet;
Vacant;
Waiting.
My bed
And my sheets:
So soft
And cool.
A maze of optics;
Ariadne
Spins
A drink
But I drop it,
Lose it.
Fool!
I wander
Aimlessly:
Foamsealandseafoamlandsea—
And
The
Song
And
Singing
It
Echoes
And
Echoes
And
Echoes:
Help me.
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