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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long… — Don Marquis

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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have it used up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it

Don Marquis
1935
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Environmental destruction
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Poem
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1935
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Don Marquis
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Marquis, Donald. "What the Ants are Saying." Archy Does His Part. The Evening Sun, c. 1935.

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