In my head there’s an old man who says “GPS is for pussies” at war with an old man who says “hemorrhoid cushions are for pussies” so i’m not how you say deep but i learned a few things working at the butterfly exhibit one it’s possible to surround yourself with beautiful things and not become beautiful and two it’s hard to tell when beautiful things die because they stay beautiful for a long time there’s more but then we’re really getting into minutiae and where i’m living now the butterflies are coming back but like tongues of fire and my children have built a fort of sofa cushions stronger than my nightmares

Justin Lacour lives in New Orleans and edits Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry.