A gift from the sky. This is the cloud of flying grasshoppers, appearing with the rain and following the light. After the first rain shower millions of them are found in every corner, painting green the fields, fresh and clean, beautiful! They are harmless. Not like the ones that eat and destroy the harvest. No, these are very good, as they say, in any meaning! People run and muscle in through the crowd with bags of 20, 50, 100 Kg. They fill them enthusiastic, with a tireless smile that will not disappear for the whole day. “We have now food for a whole year!”, “We fry them and we go to sell them at the market... we will get a lot of money!”. The children jig about happy, catching the grasshoppers one by one in a empty coke bottle. “At last a bit meat... and everything for free!”. A mama, sweating by transporting her heavy bags of bugs, tell us confidentially: “With these I will prepare a delicious soup!”.
And then nothing more. It is already evening. For another lucky day, we will need to wait one year, up to
the next first rain. Thank you, for this marvelous gift.
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