THE BOOK OF
OTHERS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF BASTARDS
Nobody remembers the Phoenicians
Chapter 1
And then there were all the Others,
2The ones who weren’t aSpics,
3Or bFrogs,
4Or cBrits,
5Or dKrauts,
6Or eYanks,
7Or fBeaks,
8Or gRusskies,
9Or hChinks,
10Or iNips,
11The ones who weren’t jGypsies,
12Or kMesopotamians,
13Or lGreeks,
14Or mRomans,
15Or even nItalians.
16oThese are the ones who weren’t ever Chosen,
17Even for a little while,
18No matter how hard they tried to be Chosen,
19Or didn’t,
20No matter how much they wanted to be Chosen,
21Or didn’t,
22No matter how much they might have deserved to be Chosen,
23Or didn’t,
24They simply weren’t,
25And may not ever be,
26Because that’s the way things are,
27And have always been,
28pAnd will always be.
29This is their qstory.
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