This is Exercise #6 of the twenty-five Exercises in Song for Christmas 2008.
"Olfactory " originally appeared on p114 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.
Exercises in Song 2008: #6
Home smells of baking and fires,
But I can't detect it for the stench
Of alcohol and Scampi Fries and dry-roasted nuts
And the general fug of mensch.
I long for hints of peat,
Salty seas and shorelines sweet,
And the gentle note of rose-round-the-door
Filling the length of my street.
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