Streamers

Steamers Streamers the term that they give to a bird The story of which you might never have heard In the Mojave Desert, there’s a large solar plant Three hundred thousand mirrors fixed to the sun’s slant They magnify rays to produce lots of steam To heat lots of houses – it’s environmentally clean Federal wildlife officials say that the bright light Attracts all the bugs so nearby birds all take flight Perhaps at the rate of each minute or two A bug-chasing bird through the light simply flew They were instantly fried, vanished in plumes of smoke From the heat of the rays in an instant heat stroke No trace of the bird, no trace of the bug When asked how to stop it, officials just shrug They just count the birds, put the count in a book Know to heat just one house, just how many it took They don’t share this knowledge, they fear if they should A bird-loving lawyer would sue them for good If you live near this desert and you heat with steam Your energy source comes complete with a scream!