The first butterflies

The first butterflies 
came forth upon the earth screaming 
and crashing about them with gigantic 
clubs. It was they

who fucked the dinosaurs 
and the dinosaurs didn't like it
one bit but they gave birth to the birds
that outlived them. When the dinosaurs saw 

the birds 

they gurgled and cooed in sheer disarmed 
admiration, their baser instincts lulled 
by these peepy-cheepers and fuck-awe 
eagles and shit. "The future's in good 
wings." The dinosaurs sagely nodded. 
"Time to die. Thanks, butterflies! Hey
there's a meteor!" 

While the butterflies meanwhile, unabated
in their fluttering rampage next strapped
apes to high-tension lines with high-voltage
cables and it boosted the apes like mad. 
Convulsions and psychosis. The result 

was a lot of twitchy, mad apes 
who killed all that kind of butterfly
- the dangerous kind - by systematic 
application of butterfly-racial profiling 
and broad-spectrum butterfly-genocide,
plus a kind of eugenics that hadn't 
been invented yet. Leaving us 

the sort of butterflies you know. 
Never having known their glories.

Thanks, apes!