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Slaughterhouse Five
Or
The Children's Crusade - A Duty-Dance with Death
A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
A Fourth-Generation German-American
Now Living in Easy Circumstances
On Cape Cod
[And Smoking Too Much],
Who, As An American Infantry Scout
Hors De Combat,
As A Prisoner of War,
Witnessed The Fire-Bombing
Of Dresden, Germany,
"The Florence of the Elbe,"
A Long Time Ago,
This is a Novel
Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic
Manner of Tales
Of the Planet Tralfamadore,
Where the Flying Saucers
Come From.
Peace.