Butterflies
Carbon-dioxide emissions, herbicides, pesticides,
Ozone-eroding chlorofluorocarbons, deforestations
Are systematically accelerating the heating up of Earth,
Exterminating species, left and right,
In what's become the fires inside a Topf & Sons oven,
The most fragile and beautiful being the monarch butterfly,
Which lays its eggs only on leaves of the milkweed,
A plant highly susceptible to agricultural poisons
Used to eradicate weeds, not genetically-engineered seeds.
We've seen, before, what happens when people, societies
Ignore depredations, eliminations, disappearances,
Pretend the benefits outweigh the consequences.
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