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The Ants

February 25, 2022
By sidneycwilson09 BRONZE, Dearborn Heights, Michigan
sidneycwilson09 BRONZE, Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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The girl on a walk sees an orange sleeping

She approaches the resting orange and sees its being bombarded by a swarm of ants

Get away you filthy ants get away the orange is dreaming yelled the girl to the ants

The ants did not listen. They slowly started to rip the oranges body open and take away its insides

The girl kept screaming, rolling on the ground, hitting herself, and yet the ants paid no attention

The orange was gone by sundown, and so was the girl

Down in an anthill lay the two 


The author's comments:

This is a Russel Edson inspired poem about my fear of Ants and the first time this fear ever came to light. 


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