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<p>Perhaps <span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal;
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Vincent Benét's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare"><u>Metropolitan
Nightmare</u></a>, a prose poem published in 1933, just 4
years after his Pulitzer Prize winning <u>John Brown's Body</u>
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"You'd better look out for those ants. They eat wood, you know,
They'll have your shack down in no time."
The watchman spat.
"Oh, they've quit eating wood," he said, in a casual voice,
"I thought everybody knew that."
—and, reaching down,
He pried from the insect jaws the bright crumb of steel.</i></pre>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/2/21 8:25 AM,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody remember a science fiction
phantasy concerning a summer so hot in New York that the
termites started eating the steel? <o:p></o:p></p>
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