Middle East monotony
For America appears
To care about cetaceans
They hate these concrete tubs
Chorinated hell holes
Obviously it rubs
The Animal Rights protestors
So, up the wrong way
And Manby and the rest of them
Honestly they say
The Arabs and The Middle East
Have a penchant for seeing
orca’s doing all sorts of tricks
Every single being
Has its place now somewhere
And America’s not the place
And The UK they don’t want them either
Its something they had to face
So keeping them in the
tiny tanks
With frozen herring they
Clearly are not so touchy
So therefore its okay
To start again in Dubai
Or somewhere where its new
Theres not many Orca’s in the desert
So Sea World’s thought it through
No breeding in America
But the Middle east who knows
Sea World are a bunch of corporates
Where basically anything goes
So wait and see whats happening
With oil money maybe
Investment in great orca tanks
Might be the place to see
And all the Orca’s left in tanks
Are there for all their days
No sea pens so says Manby
For keeping them it pays
Talk up real life action
Talk down tricks and loops
Still they are in concrete tubs
And chlorinated soups
Still they will be fed on frozen
Herring night and day
Which does things to their digestion
Fucks it up I say
Animals need fresh food
Not prozac not at all
They don’t need antibiotics
Not now as a rule
Sea World they are monsters
To keep their prisons where
Victims stolen from real life
Are fed on pure despair
I am sick and tired of reading
All the accolades
We are giving them free advertising
We are aqua maids
All their news is good news
We must realise
They are bloody corporates
Not caring sentient guys
I think your spot on with this Rex, an excellent poem..and sadly, I’m sure it is true..
i know in many ways. I hope I am not but PR and so many people this end patting them on the back they are laughing loudly in the boardroom whilst all the cetaceans are crying quietly to themselves in their concrete tanks
Thanks for believing in me and helping