Butterfly and Bee

from FOSSILS by Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers

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Floating, frivolous
Flutters fickle from one petal to the next
Beautiful, beloved
For the painted wings it holds high above it
Begging for the net
Captured and resents
First to flock and feast on the dead eye of disease

Unfurled your wings and showed yourself to me

Buzzing, blurry
Honey goddess but remembered for the sting
Colonist born of comb
May be long romancing pollen but comes home
And once the barb is in
Venom pumping quick
Cost of the defense: messy death on retreat

Wouldn’t mind to find myself a queen

Crushing, punchy
Who will deliver once it’s winter and you’re free
And cold as stone
While I’m in the hive’s good company and warm?

You and I were never meant to be
Just a matter of taxonomy

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from FOSSILS, released January 3, 2022

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Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers Washington, D.C.

Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers believe in fuzz pedals and flowers.

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