Next day, the dawn was a brilliant fiery red

And I wandered through the weird and lurid landscape

Of another planet

For the vegetation which gives Mars its red appearance

Had taken root on Earth

As Man had succumbed to the Martians

So our land now succumbed to the Red Weed

Wherever there was a stream

The Red Weed clung and grew with frightening voraciousness

Its claw-like fronds choking the movement of the water

And then it began to creep like a slimy red animal across the land

Covering field and ditch and tree and hedgerow

With living scarlet feelers

Crawling

Crawling