Sweet seventeen and rising Look down, it's holey ground Legions of discarded shells Marching for the sky, then Left, giving trees a new skin Empty replicas of newly winged Angels or maybe drunken aliens With zero time to learn to fly They've got pressing business If you know what I mean Wink wink nudge nudge bug sex And is it anything to sing about? Just listen to the choir of millions As the ladies drop leaves like veils To add to the carpet of husks And corpses and living bodies Leaves coated with the eggs Whose inhabitants will burrow Down deep, preparing to return In the alien invasion of 2038
