The View From Kalamazoo

So. This afternoon the boss suddenly announced to the office that we should write a limerick that included the rhyme flotilla and Totila.

Seriously.

So this is what I came up with (note I was the only one who did as bidden…). He has suggested I do 5-10 in Leavenworth for impersonating a poet, ’cause it didn’t start “There once was a…”, but I think it’s pretty darn good considering I don’t do Goths (or anything else that early). So there.

The 6th century Gothic flotilla

sent by that plunderer, ol’ King “Totila”,

would take Greece (he thought),

but a eunuch he got

so that was the end of Baduila.

Everyone’s a critic…

5-10. Bah.