across the Kansas plains
in nineteen thirty five
a soot black dust plume
did relentlessly drive
it consumed everything
in its gritty path
houses and farm sheds
were covered in a dark bath

drought and a failure
of good rains to fall
had caused this most
horrifying gloomy wall
the people of he plains
thought the end was nigh
so they loaded up
their belongings and said goodbye

over the plains country
the dust held sway
and its dark ***** plume
lasted for some days
states further south of Kansas
were affected too
as it swept into their borders
with its black slew