firefly

I want to see fireflies. I've never had the opportunity, and when I brought this up at dinner the other night, I was told that fireflies are actually ugly little things. One man actually told me that when he was a boy, he used to smash them and paint his face with their glowing insides.

This seems like the most terrible thing in the world to me.

My desire is not to see them up close or to handle them. I merely want to sit quiet in the dark and watch their lights flicker and float against the blackness.