[FRIAM] Science fiction query?

[Steve Smith]

Perhaps Stephen Vincent Benét's _Metropolitan Nightmare_
<https://poets.org/poem/metropolitan-nightmare>, a prose poem published
in 1933, just 4 years after his Pulitzer Prize winning _John Brown's Body_ ?

These being the closing lines:


     /"Say, buddy," he said, "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./



On 8/2/21 8:25 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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> Does anybody remember a science fiction phantasy concerning a summer
> so hot in New York that the termites started eating the steel? 
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