1. 13:05 30th Aug 2012

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    Tags: memoirslitJoe BlairBy the Iowa Sea

    It doesn’t bother me much when, on the south side of Independence near the cemetery, a butterfly gets tangled up in my wiper blade. I’m not a big insect lover. It doesn’t break my heart to see a butterfly die.
    — Joe Blair, from By the Iowa Sea. Only 12 pages in but am really struck by it, so far. He goes onto say, “but really, if you discount the wings, a butterfly looks a lot like a hairy worm.”
     
    1. thepinakes said: It’s true, they do.
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