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butterfly, fly away..

I. 

September and Bougenville went on a date.


II. 

September showed up a bit late.
But Bougenville don’t mind.


III. 

Bougenville is a story teller.
September is a good listener.

Their date soon began,
as Bougenville hopped onto September scooter,
and they started talking.

*(or more like, Bougenville started talking and September, well, he listened)

They asked each other, like, they wanted to knew each other better.


IV.  

At their first stop, 

They had mineral water.
At a beautiful park in town.


V. 

Then, they circled around the blocks.
Stopped to get some prayer.
That was the very first time for Bougenville to get prayers onto her favorite mosque—since she was a little girl—or kid, maybe.


VI. 

They wanted to go to lunch, 

but they couldn’t find it.

So they went back and forth along the street,
back and forth
and back and forth
and back and forth

The entire time, they laughed and laughed.


VII. 

Finally, they found a nice place.

“Look, September—we’re having lunch with Mr. Lettuce!”

“Bougenville, it’s more like we’re having Mr. Lettuce for lunch.”

After lunch,
on they hopped
back to September’s scooter.

Their next plan was to enjoy looking for books in bookstore.


VIII. 

So off they went,
going home.

They went around
and around
and around

…and around…


IX. 

They laugh all the time,
like there was too many flowers around them.
and there was butterfly around them, too.

X. 

…and the afternoon was still close to sweet,
nevertheless.

-L.

Inspired by: Sri Izzati ♥