PSYCHE
  • Introduction
  • Author/Artist
  • The Butterfly Collector
    • Labelled
    • Odyssey
    • Medication Time
  • Insanity or Enlightenment?
    • God Spell
    • Wired for Sound
    • A Spoonful of Sugar
  • Mind Reader
    • The Meaning of Life
    • Power to the People
  • Links
  • Contact

The Butterfly Collector

Born into the world, a butterfly.
She takes to the air to experience the gift of life.
The collector (Prof: mg, od, ect, xyz, cert, psych, etc) interested in, fascinated by, ignorant of, the way of the butterfly, nets her and takes her from the natural environment back to his laboratory.
In captivity she is disorientated and fearful. She struggles to be free.
He observes her, recording the ‘peculiarities of her behaviour’, important for his research.
He administers a measured chemical solution; hydrochloric acid.
Heavily sedated, she ceases to struggle.
He examines her psychedelic wings; ‘intriguing’.
He inserts a sterilised needle into and through her thorax and pins her to a one-dimensional surface… her spirit breaks.
He attaches a label to her.
He is satisfied. She is categorised.
She is placed within a case and displayed behind glass.
He has his prize… another One to add to his collection.
How clever he is. What an curious specimen.


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