A Butterfly In The Garden Poem by RIC BASTASA

a pig in the pigsty
fat and dirty is
beautiful.

a butterfly in the
garden, black one,
with only one wing
left, dead on the
grass, is also
beautiful. Though
sad. It is also
beautiful in itself.

a man beating his
wife, using his fists,
standing by the door
of the house,
cursing himself,
lacking still in
understanding
and contemplating
of ending his life,
is also a thrill,
and thrill is also
beautiful,

and the wife still
bleeding to death
on the floor, on
the side of a
wooden bed,
crying but not
asking for help,
missing her kids
taken by her mother-in-law
same thing,
wanting to end all
these miseries,
is also beautiful.

everything happens
no matter how we
detest, ...that, that
is also beautiful.