Shirt With Butterfly , Joe Brainard.

Shirt With Butterfly , Joe Brainard.
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O, Butterfly, 

Why do you sit atop this collar,
Atop this linen and fabric?

With such wings as yours,
Why do you wish to forfeit it all,
For this, for this fate such as this?
Is what they always ask me. 

O, My fluttering wings,
I wish to spread for my manhood,
And keep for my womanhood,
For I am an enigma,
Am I scum; a fly,
To dare think of changing,
To dare think of gleaming stronger than the others,
As something stark and brilliant; something nature intended?

O, shimmering love, 

May my masculinity be feminine, 

And my femininity be masculine, 

For I lay atop linen and fabric, 

As a beautiful bow,