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glass jar
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Glass Jar

there’s a famous

Calvin and Hobbes

comic strip

where Calvin catches a butterfly

and puts it in a glass jar

gleeful of what he’s done

Hobbes says

“if people could put rainbows

in zoos, they’d do it”

and walks away

a sobering and weary

philosophical commentary

perhaps we are greedy

wanting to capture beauty

when it’s meant to be free

of the constraints of humanity