Fly

Nat King Cole, "Straighten Up and Fly Right":

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Les Mouches":

Lord of the Flies:

Sarah Vaughan, "Fly Me to the Moon":

Curtis Mayfield, "Superfly":

Herbie Hancock, "Butterfly":

Esperanza Spalding, "Little Fly":

William Blake, "Little Fly":


Little Fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brush’d away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance,
And Drink,& sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength & breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
Or if I die.