The Red Weed (Part 1)

Next day, the dawn was a brilliant fiery red
 And I wandered though the weird and lurid landscape of another planet
 While 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
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 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