{"id":17599,"date":"2014-09-11T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17599"},"modified":"2014-09-11T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:14:40","slug":"my-truth-oin-dolphins-and-these-aqua-parks-like-sea-world-and-clearwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/my-truth-oin-dolphins-and-these-aqua-parks-like-sea-world-and-clearwater\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Winter&#8221; in prose  a heartfelt plea to the aqua parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winters my name I&#8217;m a female<\/p>\n<p>the same<\/p>\n<p>a feminine gal from the sea<\/p>\n<p>from that life giving ocean<\/p>\n<p>where all my devotion<\/p>\n<p>was knowing thats where<\/p>\n<p>I should be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>captured and stuck in a tank<\/p>\n<p>made of concrete<\/p>\n<p>a circus performer of sorts<\/p>\n<p>no natural rhythms<\/p>\n<p>no interaction<\/p>\n<p>no depth and no distance<\/p>\n<p>my thoughts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>lost in \u00a0a soupcon of reflection<\/p>\n<p>a stagnating odorous place<\/p>\n<p>a tank where deception<\/p>\n<p>is rank with obreption<\/p>\n<p>its no place for me or my face<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I suffer so Clearwater prospers<\/p>\n<p>and they &#8216;re making money and more<\/p>\n<p>my muscle tone<\/p>\n<p>oh goddess I groan<\/p>\n<p>when I move \u00a0just everything&#8217;s sore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nothing alive in my diet<\/p>\n<p>dead smelly fish that is all<\/p>\n<p>no seals or turtles its hell here<\/p>\n<p>the discomfort<\/p>\n<p>that I must endure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the fool<\/p>\n<p>they call \u00a0Winter<\/p>\n<p>and mypoor \u00a0heart it feels cold<\/p>\n<p>the torture significant<\/p>\n<p>truthfully<\/p>\n<p>but on it all<\/p>\n<p>I am not not sold<\/p>\n<p>on circus tricks no way<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not their clown<\/p>\n<p>this is an ordeal<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;m going down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am their scapegoat<\/p>\n<p>I sacrifice all<\/p>\n<p>anxious, so much angst<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s just a wall<\/p>\n<p>of silence around me<\/p>\n<p>where is the sea<\/p>\n<p>where are the thunderous waves<\/p>\n<p>they are key<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to my life to my being<\/p>\n<p>the sea life my friends<\/p>\n<p>tanked up in concrete cells<\/p>\n<p>christ! when it ends<\/p>\n<p>I will sing to the summerland<\/p>\n<p>sing to the night<\/p>\n<p>for this kind of life<\/p>\n<p>of course its not right<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a wild dolphin<\/p>\n<p>with wild thoughts and fears<\/p>\n<p>I need the great ocean<\/p>\n<p>where oblivion steers<\/p>\n<p>my every emotion<\/p>\n<p>my existence for I<\/p>\n<p>am not made of metal<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m alive which is why<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I so need my freedom<\/p>\n<p>I scream in my heart<\/p>\n<p>to live in the now here<\/p>\n<p>where do I start<\/p>\n<p>round and round<\/p>\n<p>in such tedium<\/p>\n<p>in this soup bowl<\/p>\n<p>in my own aura<\/p>\n<p>there is no goal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have no relationships<\/p>\n<p>no kinship here<\/p>\n<p>trainers no brainer&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>those arses are clear<\/p>\n<p>corporate yes men<\/p>\n<p>they do what their told<\/p>\n<p>and say what theyre told to say<\/p>\n<p>their hearts are cold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>no matriarch patriach<\/p>\n<p>affinity<\/p>\n<p>we are spiritual beings<\/p>\n<p>with ancestry<\/p>\n<p>we have our identity<\/p>\n<p>contrary to<\/p>\n<p>the management psychos<\/p>\n<p>that manage this zoo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>their discrimination<\/p>\n<p>is just everywhere<\/p>\n<p>they are discordant<\/p>\n<p>whilst of course we&#8217;re rare<\/p>\n<p>camouflaged natural<\/p>\n<p>created to be<\/p>\n<p>unique by comparison<\/p>\n<p>souls in the sea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>superior brains<\/p>\n<p>we have them and some<\/p>\n<p>know this and realize<\/p>\n<p>trainers are numb<\/p>\n<p>to any advanced stuff<\/p>\n<p>thicko&#8217;s they be<\/p>\n<p>small by comparison<\/p>\n<p>to souls like me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in this tank 24 7<\/p>\n<p>I live here I work here<\/p>\n<p>this is my heaven<\/p>\n<p>my hell and my toilet<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no where to go<\/p>\n<p>this is the end and the beginning<\/p>\n<p>you know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nothing holistic<\/p>\n<p>about anything here<\/p>\n<p>the whole caboodle<\/p>\n<p>do you get it \u00a0its clear<\/p>\n<p>the trainers go home to their<\/p>\n<p>fucking abodes<\/p>\n<p>the owners their mansions<\/p>\n<p>like fat greasy toads<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have monotony<\/p>\n<p>consecutiveness<\/p>\n<p>just endless nothing<\/p>\n<p>a progression of stress<\/p>\n<p>continuous boredom<\/p>\n<p>recurrent tears<\/p>\n<p>round and round and just stop<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s what it appears<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to adapt myself<\/p>\n<p>to this here tank<\/p>\n<p>conform to their module<\/p>\n<p>what says the bank<\/p>\n<p>more lousy humans<\/p>\n<p>who sit on their hands<\/p>\n<p>and talk out of their arses<\/p>\n<p>whilst making my plans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>which are repetition<\/p>\n<p>iteration and more<\/p>\n<p>I am their throwback<\/p>\n<p>Natural Law<\/p>\n<p>knows what I&#8217;m wanting<\/p>\n<p>but these fools do not<\/p>\n<p>in the passage of time<\/p>\n<p>nothing I&#8217;ve got<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a precarious life<\/p>\n<p>without changes at all<\/p>\n<p>everything&#8217;s makeshift<\/p>\n<p>and every fool<\/p>\n<p>who pays to see me leap<\/p>\n<p>or chuckle and smile<\/p>\n<p>I am sick \u00a0in my stomach<\/p>\n<p>and you lot are vile<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for supporting these bastards<\/p>\n<p>these corporate clowns<\/p>\n<p>they fail in their empathy stakes<\/p>\n<p>all the towns<\/p>\n<p>we go to and live in<\/p>\n<p>and act in, we know<\/p>\n<p>when we are part<\/p>\n<p>of their travelling show<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we await our death<\/p>\n<p>with joyous intent<\/p>\n<p>for we are now doomed<\/p>\n<p>nobody&#8217;s lent<\/p>\n<p>a semblance of naturalness<\/p>\n<p>for us to behold<\/p>\n<p>we are ephemeral creatures of old<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a female<\/p>\n<p>with love in my soul<\/p>\n<p>matronal embraces<\/p>\n<p>I had a role<\/p>\n<p>but human endeavour<\/p>\n<p>desensitized ghouls<\/p>\n<p>took that away<\/p>\n<p>placing me in these pools<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pain and emotion<\/p>\n<p>I flinch and I squirm<\/p>\n<p>I know yes I know<\/p>\n<p>I am here now long term<\/p>\n<p>deaf to the music<\/p>\n<p>blind to the day<\/p>\n<p>only seeing their darkness<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s why I pay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>them back for their thoughtlessness<\/p>\n<p>incogitant ways<\/p>\n<p>unthinking just thoughtless<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s how it plays<\/p>\n<p>out its my life<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s ruined and lost<\/p>\n<p>their profit enormous<\/p>\n<p>and its me that its cost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winters my name I&#8217;m a female the same a feminine gal from the sea from that life giving ocean where all my devotion was knowing thats where I should be &nbsp; captured and stuck in a tank made of concrete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/my-truth-oin-dolphins-and-these-aqua-parks-like-sea-world-and-clearwater\/\">Continue reading <span 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