Poem: "Of Locusts and Plagues"

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Here is the freebie poem for the September Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a magazine article prompt from valdary.

Of Plagues and Locusts

A field swarms with locusts
and is subsumed.
Predators eat and grow sated,
yet the locusts remain.
Pathogens enter and are thwarted,
and still the locusts survive.

Scientists murmur, "That's funny,"
wondering why the locusts do not sicken.
They squeeze locust brains from chitin skulls
in hopes of defeating drug-resistant germs.
They seek to turn plague upon plague,
rising to fight fire with fire.