{"id":26402,"date":"2016-02-18T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26402"},"modified":"2016-02-18T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:24:54","slug":"uncle-tom-and-the-whalers-in-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/uncle-tom-and-the-whalers-in-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tom and the whalers in Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eden is a place in New South Wales<br \/>\nHalf way between<br \/>\nSydney yea and Melbourne<br \/>\nAnd if you have never been<br \/>\nIt has a natural harbour<br \/>\nAnd many years ago<br \/>\nWhaling was the big idea<br \/>\nHelped by others in the flow<\/p>\n<p>The killer whales<br \/>\nWere up to it<br \/>\nThey were prepared to stake<br \/>\nTheir time and effort and expertise<br \/>\nTo help men eat the cake<br \/>\nOld Tom was a big Orca<br \/>\nA leader of a pod<br \/>\nWho apparently helped the whalers<br \/>\nAnd shared the whale<br \/>\nHis god<br \/>\nClearly hunted baleen whales<br \/>\nAs man did in the bay<br \/>\nAnd so they got together<br \/>\nReally as a way<\/p>\n<p>Of helping they were strategists<br \/>\nAnd adaptive to the cause<br \/>\nThey work along with the whaling men<br \/>\nThe men who used their oars<br \/>\nTo row out to the open sea<br \/>\nAnd harpoon a grey whale<br \/>\nAided by the orca&#8217;s who ensured<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t fail<\/p>\n<p>And the reward for a capture<br \/>\nWas the killers loved the tongue<br \/>\nThe men were after the blubber<br \/>\nSo the tongue became their bung<br \/>\nThe law of the tongue became the way<br \/>\nThat the great whales were brought ashore<br \/>\nWith the help of the trusted Orca clan<br \/>\nWho didn&#8217;t want for more<\/p>\n<p>They organised the ambush<br \/>\nAnd the men harpooned the whale<br \/>\nThe whale then rushed off dragging them<br \/>\nUntil well it did fail<br \/>\nWeaken and the injury meant loss of blood<br \/>\nAnd so<br \/>\nThe Killers got their precious tongues<br \/>\nAnd the men of course did know<\/p>\n<p>That was a true story<br \/>\nOf Eden&#8217;s relationship<br \/>\nWith the killer whales<br \/>\nFor when all else fails<br \/>\nThey were ready to let rip<br \/>\nAssist the men those whalers<br \/>\nImprove the odds so they<br \/>\nWere able to catch the whales they wanted<br \/>\nAnd do it night and day<\/p>\n<p>The killer whales are killers<br \/>\nSleek and intelligent souls<br \/>\nIf they want a particular whale<br \/>\nThey exert their controls<br \/>\nThey work together the whole pod<br \/>\nIs clearly on a roll<br \/>\nThey are adaptive killers<br \/>\nWith intelligence and soul<\/p>\n<p>Again I say that Sea World<br \/>\nErred when they thought that they<br \/>\nWould capture and imprison the Orca&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnd of course the day<br \/>\ncame when they well realised<br \/>\nKiller whales can kill<br \/>\nDawn was slaughtered and other have been<br \/>\nVictims lost at will<\/p>\n<p>And all because of our arrogance<br \/>\nWe imagine that we are gods<br \/>\nBut corporates are nothing<br \/>\nThey are just a bunch of sods<br \/>\nBrainless compared to the Orca&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnd sadly some have paid<br \/>\nWith their lives<br \/>\ncovered up its true<br \/>\nFor the great black fish survives<\/p>\n<p>They never should be captured<br \/>\nAnd placed in tanks so we<br \/>\nCan try to house them and feed them<br \/>\nInto infinity<br \/>\nWe are a graceless bunch of turds<br \/>\nImagining that we<br \/>\nCan train and manage such a beast<br \/>\nThe killers of the sea<\/p>\n<p>If we continue down this road<br \/>\nMore people will be killed<br \/>\nMore innocent souls will be injured<br \/>\nMore blood will be spilled<br \/>\nSea World erred and others too<br \/>\nWill suffer they will die<br \/>\nFor the awful life we put them through<br \/>\nAnd Thats no word of a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden is a place in New South Wales Half way between Sydney yea and Melbourne And if you have never been It has a natural harbour And many years ago Whaling was the big idea Helped by others in the &hellip; 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