Dolphins and their terrible slaughter in Japan

slaughterhouses everywhere

are killing behind closed doors

millions of animals throats slashed

to almost no applause

in Japan they do the killing

out in the open where

school children can be walking by

and can absorb all that despair

in many ways they are different

from what we do back here

slaughtering on the pavement

accepting the avid fear

pigtails and the satchels

very little girls

forced  to see and hear the pain

through their school girl curls

sounding rods were

utilized

out there in the sea

which interfered with their sonar

poor souls frantically

calling to each other

mothers to their calves

nobody abandons

any wounded dolphins

halves

will go to her

the other half protect her if they can

unlike human beings

if they have to die they plan

to die and that’s their feeling

they never leave someone

drowning in dire peril

none of them will run

they are worthy spirits

sentient and calm

loving towards their offspring

no one will chance their arm

they love and in fact they care so much

and of course it shows

but the Japanese are merciless

which of course does pose

a dilemma in the port of Taiji

for thousands of them die

pithed and cut up violently

with pain levels so high

wrapped up in resentment

in agony for they

are as sentient as the day is long

and there’s little one can say

out come the machete’s

to carve through bodies, they

suffer how they suffer

blood  pouring away

flapping slapping crapping

the terror its all there

under tarps and on the streets

adding to the despair

Japan displays the carnage

turns the blue sea red

cuts the dolphins out in the streets

and we are then led

to experience the horror

to listen as they die

to watch them flapping frantically

and staring with their big eye

slowly suffocating

shuddering abroad

convulsing you can feel their pain

don’t get over awed

don’t look away

you have to

watch this carnage play

out across Japan and in the cove

and in every bay

the fishermen are numb to it

their faces glazed and pale

the international pressure

the really awful tale

that comes out onto television

of dolphins in their prime

slaughtered in the water

yes time after time

from  September

through to March

their deaths go up to 20 thou

very resilient and sentient souls

and most of us ask how?

why is this still happening

when the worlds eyes bear down on

Taiji and its blood money

and the victims that are now gone

stolen from their families

torn to pieces by

machetes raging at them

as many of them cry

as many of them splutter

they utter dying calls

as many of the matter

but not so fisher fools

nasty ugly fisher folk

who use the time to kill

to render them in the death throes

till their blood does spill

does pour out of each being

and stain the beach and waves

with sinew wrenched from deep within

to create these watery graves