Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2007 - 10:06 p.m.
The Butterfly Sisters Return
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They drove their bikes up the driveway
and were wearing very sneaky smiles
" Whats up?" I ask
thery trade glaces and whisper'
" We have the most butterfly eggs ever
like we have eight of them
....and two caterpillers
...and some chrysalis
read eeeeeeee to hatch
any day now"
They were
very proud of
their latest achievemnt..
and so they should
the best butterfly egg hunting season
is the week before the little ones birthday
she had a butterfly theme party last year
and was able to hand out
one ready- to -emmerge butterfly chrysalis
to each of her guests
it was the most awesome gift
any of them
had ever received
in their entire lives the real thing
reared magically at home
away from the eco hype at school
and her honour and fame
spread throughout her school
as the one who can deliver up
real butterflys
the real stuff
from the wild no kits or tricks
She is already wearing her best
sparkly butterfly pink t shirt
she displays her outfit with pride
of genuine accomplishment
she must have met
several people all winter
who have never ever
found a butterfly egg
and she can zap off several
on any good morning
near her sacred birthday
she will be eight in two days
and already has shephered at least
twenty fine Monarch Butterflys
into destiny from their tiny eggs
right up to them emmerging from their chrysalis
she is the envy of
all her friends
all of her teachers
and every amazed adult
who has ever seen her humble
but efficient
little butterfly hatchery
housed in a white plastic margerine pail
her sister is a good, but on and off again butterfly hunter
but the little sister is the fierce one'
the one who will lovingly examine hundreds of milkweed leaves'
just like I showeed her when she was four
she burns in her heart to achieve excellence
taising butterflys from eggs is not hard
but you must not goof anything up
or they die
do right and they thrive
you have to know in your heart
when you are correct of deficient
there is no faking raising butterflys
either you know what you are doing
or you are a goof
the butterfly sisters
know what they are doing
their Mom helps out
with walks to get milkweed
but raising butterflys is their gig
they are the bosses
and have tasted excellence at an early age
It is girls like them
that lets me relax about
the fate of the world tomorrow
they know what they are doing
the fate of the world
will not be run by goofs
there will be a lot of butterflys
raised right
