‘Too much light comes in from outside,
and too much spring.
Close the shosi.’
-Butterfly.
Her suicide’s her wedding gift
setting him free
last posture of love
and the child in the bargain
but Puccini curses Pinkerton
in the blaring final
faux-Japanese music
where Butterfly’s ancestors
along with her uncle and father
rise up to condemn
the unfaithful the betrayers
and her among them
who thought love might
overwhelm fate.
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