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i saw an SUV hit a butterfly today.

the SUV never even noticed,

and the small pile of folded yellow spun off through the air as i passed.

i saw a butterfly hit a skyscraper today.

the skyscraper dissolved like a sand castle,

and the butterfly metamorphosed into a ball of fire rising into the heavens.

the butterfly knew its life was short,

but why did it hate the skyscraper,

whose only sin was being built,

and communing with the sky?

the trees don't know why.

they don't even know it happened.