Poop Butterflies
Grace was telling me about her favorite thing in the movie “Horton Hears a Who” on the way to school. I have not seen the part she was talking about, but it has something to do with someone saying something like “In my world there are horses. They eat rainbows and poop butterflies”.
Grace then asked me if I had ever seen a “poop butterfly”. I tried to explain that there was no such insect as a “poop butterfly” and instead that the person was saying when the horses pooped, butterflies came out. Not that the horse was eating a special kind of butterfly, called the “poop butterfly”.
I could see her think this through for a while in the rear view mirror. She came back with “How do you know”?
Realizing that the movie was about an elephant that discovered a whole new world/universe living inside a spec on a flower I realized reality had no place in this conversation and admitted that I had never seen the elusive “poop butterfly”.
