Whale Song

Whale hunters target the baby first.

They shoot it with a harpoon

and watch it through the

sight.

They wait �

for the

ocean to stain red.

Before taking aim again.

But the mother never leaves.

She stays a foot or so away, knowing that she too,

will die at the tip of the hunter�s dart.

And the sound of her own melancholic song �

is the last that either will hear.

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