Is flickering pixelated images of you.
My Butterfly Compass.
Is moist. Dripping lizard-like corals of saliva for you.
My Butterfly Compass.
Is impregnated. Virally infected with diagrams of you.
My Butterfly Compass.
Needs correction. Do you have my boyhood tweezers? My finger-puppet screwdriver? Do you?
My Butterfly Compass.
Is brittle now, dreamlike, resembling a tombstone inscription.
My Butterfly Compass.
Is cocooned. With you.
My Butterfly Compass.
Is old now, greying, dying, decaying to powder.
My Butterfly Compass.
Ceased functioning.
But when you breathe, it shimmers.
When you breathe, it shimmers.
You breathe, it shimmers.
Breathe, it shimmers.
It shimmers.
Shimmers.
My Butterfly Compass.
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