So you say change scares you out of your skin.
Well,
you’re not the only person around here.
Hell,
you’re not the only species….
My niece, 12 years old,
phones up last night
to tell me about her project
in science class
on Lepidoptera
(What’s that?
Look it up.
I had to.)
which meant dissecting
a caterpillar.
When she got past gross
and poked around inside
the big, fat crawler
she discovered
–you won’t believe it!—
it’s tummy
was all full
of butterflies.