This is part of the complete Exercises in Song cycle being released on this site.
"Notation " originally appeared on p19 of Raymond Queneau's Exercices de Style in the 1998 Calderbook translation.
To be sung to the tune of "Show Me The Way To Go Home". More information here.
Indicate destination.
Fatigue; wishing there might be a lull.
A confirmation of libation recently done
And its passage to my skull.
Indifferent both to place
And the landscapes one might face.
Declaration of continuous voice;
Repeat the pertinent case.