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I'm lost for words when
I think of the depths to which we sink
Sometimes there just seem to be no depths
To which our species will not sink.
Surely, in this day and age
We should be seeking to establish
Meaningful and constructive relationships
With other higher intelligences
Like dolphins and whales.
Instead, however
We seen intent on either exterminating them
Or roping them in to our sick
Perverted power games.
How anyone can take friendly
Playful wild dolphins
And cold-bloodedly turn them
Into drug addicted killing machines
Is almost beyond comprehension.
Yet people do it.
Cold death flies from harpoon gun
The sea turns red
What have we done?
A horrific death by harpoon
Scientific research?
Blue whales, the largest animals on the Earth
Have already been hunted to virtual extinction
While sperm whales
(who are also highly intelligent creatures
With complex social organisation
And even their own culture)
Have found themselves bruttaly slaughtered
By rich scum like Aristotle Onassis
The sick evil scumbag who even went
So far as to use the penises of sperm whales
To make his luxury yacht's bartools.
Poison and kill
We are the ones
See what we do
What have we done?
Not content with exterminating
The most intelligent form of marine life
We are also doing a pretty good job
Of killing everything else in the sea as well.
Radioactive waste, oil slicks, heavy metals
Chemical spillages
We're turning the oceans into radioactive cesspit. There are already upwards of fifty nuclear warheads
And nine nuclear reactors lost on the seabed.
Pollute and kill
Is that all that mankind can do?
