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The Dolphin Caught – A Poem for National Dolphin Day, April 14 [1]

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Date: 2023-04-14  

The bottlenose dolphin is said to be the most intelligent of all the dolphin species. They eat a variety of fish, squids and crustaceans.

I just wrote the following poem upon learning that today, April 14, is National Dolphin Day.

The Dolphin Caught

Haul the nets, crew, haul the nets!

Damn that bottlenose,

Why have sonar

If you don't use it?

Why let intelligence fail,

By distraction,

And get tangled

In our nets, head to tail

For some lousy mackerel?

Separate her out, crew, separate her out

We'll trade her with a ship

Going East

Where they still eat dolphin meat –

Chopped and grilled or stewed,

Pounds and pounds of protein

In that mammal, crew.

It is a sad thing,

When the smartest dolphin

Of the sea loses out

On 20 more years of swimming life

Dying in a fishing catch,

But we have our own people to feed

And profits to get,

So lower the nets, crew, drop the nets

Back into the deep, blue sea.

Carl Scott Harker ©2023

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My latest book of poetry is available on Amazon, you can find more great poems in it here: An Engineer of Words.

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