SWALLOWTAIL
THE TWO-TAILED SWALLOWTAIL PAPILIO multicaudata
AND THE 9TH PLANET HAVE GONE MISSING
WHY CAN’T CANCER?
The official butterfly of Arizona has been sighted
all over Toronto My friend a taxidermist + art director
found one dead He photographed it for instagram Laid
out nicely on his kitchen table cum butterfly morgue Milk
+ cheerios beyond forlorn
Dead butterflies like dead angels +dead bees give off a kind
of sonar to their tribe Now the glorious yellow+blue Swallowtails
are gathering in profusion up here in the great white north where
they will certainly die of cold While the other C word will descend
upon 1 in 2 Canadians who will be diagnosed with it in the coming
year
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SUMMER SOLSTICE 2017
