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247th Weekly Poetry Contest winner: Butterflies Lie Hay(na)ku Chain

by Angela Yuriko Smith

Lies
from butterflies—
pretty, false things.

Worms with wings
masquerading as
divas.

Exercise
extreme caution.
They are deceitful.

They came from
the planet
Mars

to
wipe out
our food chain.

Nibble by nibble
they seek
ruin.

Decimation
by mastication
is mankind’s future

unless we hedge
our hedges
and

foil
their plot
for global domination.

Beware of butterflies.
They all
lie.

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