ME - OW

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Poetic Form: Tanka

Inspired: 2024 August 22

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butterflies hover
because they can't crawl ~ but one
was trying to crawl
but it did not let it crawl
not let a butterfly crawl

what monstrosity
to let a fragile wee thing 
not to crawl
we'll call animal control
and see what they have to say

they'll probably ask
to have 'um locked and put
away for sometime
but strike of the final blow
was the coup de grace~it's dead

a death for a death
but sir, it's just an insect
not a real person
where's the compassion I heard
all murderers in my book

so he'll get away
with the crime he committed
no body no crime
that's the way cookies crumble
I'll take you to the body

of a butterfly
it's not animal control
but men with the nets
but those guys they euthanize
not lock up that murderer

its a pussy cat
if you want to put a name
on that killer's face 
it's Jeffrey Dahlmer or the
Zodiac killer so there

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