THE BOOK OF
BARBARIANS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF BARBARIANS
The barbarians stop running around
Chapter 5
aThe Franks decided to live in France.
2Which sounded like the right thing to do.
3bThe Angles and Saxons decided to live in England,
4Which sounded more right to the Angles than to the Saxons,
5But that’s the way it goes sometimes,
6Life being what it is.
7And the Visivandals and Ostrovandals,
8And the Huns and the Goths and the Vandals,
9And even the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths,
10cAll thought that Germany was the right place to live,
11Which is a lot of barbarians to put together in one place,
12dAnd maybe explains why Germany has never quite gotten the hang of being civilized.
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