"This ol' town aint been the same
since the day the locusts came."

Take a walk
down Main Street...
I'll tell you what you'll find...

empty display windows,
Out of Business signs.

"We heard the buzz",
the old man said

"It was just too overpowering !"

"We were fools
to think we had a chance
of escaping the devouring."

"There's been tales, before and since,
of many towns in other places...
brought down by the locusts...

with their smiling yellow faces.

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