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Ants

Ants by Brad Horton Ants march in a line, ants march in a line. Ants, and with them the determinations of ants (indomitable, unidirectional, unimpeachable), march in a line. Nurse ants march in a line cradling precious eggs from the queen's chamber to the incubator. Babysitter ants, carrying their younger sisters' swollen and sightless and motionless pupal bodies from an overheated chamber to a cooler room, march in a line. Her Majesty's children must be well-tended if they are to join the ranks and drive the empire's machine. Construction worker ants march in coming-and-going lines hauling single grains of soil from the lowermost excav