death of a butterfly. not a monarch. it's a stupid name for a butterfly. and it's not buttery but fluttery. i think there would never be a butterfly monarchy. it's absurd. i always thought the name was stupid. the queen croaked this week. she was a monarch. monarchy is stupid and brutal. i found this flutterby on the sidewalk this morning. i hoped it was in a cold sleep just waiting for the sun. i put it in the flowers and it kept falling upside down. i went back with lulu and set it upside up. it wasn't sleeping—it was in the long sleep. the queen is dead and won't wake up. it's the same eternity for butterflies and queens. the deadly empire is still alive. what can we do, but let a butterfly be a flutterby, not a monarch. the monarchy will die in its own good time.