TrV No. 8 (302) for 2020: Alien in a crown

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However, what is the concern in the city?
Why are the streets and squares empty?
And why, overcome with excitement,
Are people in a hurry to take refuge in their homes?

Night fell and the barbarians did not arrive.
And they told us from the state borders,
that they no longer exist in nature at all.

And what should we do now without the barbarians?
After all, this would be at least some way out.
— Constantine Viafis, Greek poet, long ago