2
Paradox of Ugly
A phantasmagoric butterfly
incinerates in flight
above the red-hot lava flow.
Polychromatic wisps
of aurora hang
shimmering
in the viscous night air.
The last metamorphosis
reveals a cocoon of ash
diffuse and vanish into an
afterimage of wings.
Fitzpatrick is a windowed monad in the simulacra. He has authored several well-known metanarratives on masculinity, living without thinking, and purchasing as a catharsis for existential woe. He would rather have been a ninja in feudal Japan.
