Talulah JellyBean: the best place for talulahs and/or jellybeans.     |     home Ramblings   |   Incident   |   Beatnik   |   Ablution   |   Afternoon   |   Glass Junk   |   Slumber   |   War   |   Blankage   |   Fortune Cookie   |   Wonderful   |   Flower Arrangement   |   Mushy   |   Fade and Crumble Fade and Crumble I could not let your beauty fade and crumble. the saddest thing I ever saw the butterfly on the stepping stones so very golden, so very blue and still, so still. its wings folded, ever so neatly I picked it up, and cradled it gently, gently. It was fragile. perfectly preserved, perfectly. I put in in a Ziplock bag. what now, Dear Butterfly? I could not let your beauty fade and crumble from the cruel elements. harsh rain, unforgiving sun and wind, would drive away that color so beautiful. the same nature that built you killed you. why; so unfair? beauty, all for me. I hid you in a cabinet that blocks out creeping tendrils of light; prying eyes, and time.