Their intelligence formidable
\nTheir capacity maybe
\nEnlightened by the ocean
\nAnd their perspicacity
\nIf I stop and think why strandings
\nIn estuaries and elsewhere
\nAnd In shallow bays why they happen
\nAre they Sharing their despair<\/p>\n
In the Faroes all the Pilots
\nLead by maturity
\nApparently like cannon fodder
\nInappropriately
\nAre cut to ribbons every one
\nAll murdered in cold blood
\nAnd dragged ashore this carnal war
\nBecomes the final flood<\/p>\n
The ascendancy of being
\nThe predominance of force
\nSuch integrity and wholeness
\nAn ensemble all on course
\nAn all-embracing family
\nTheir feral lives in sink
\nTranslocated suddenly
\nAnd taken to the brink<\/p>\n
In the minds of the primitives
\nA so called stranded whale
\nMust be seen as a godsend
\nThe fact it missed its trail
\nSo much flesh and blubber
\nFor the community
\nTo share among its members
\nFresh feral and free<\/p>\n
The savage thrust within them
\nThe norse descent would drive
\nThose served by supermarkets
\nBack when to survive
\nYou become a butcher
\nAnd could flense for all you were worth
\nAnd help yourself to a months supply
\nCare of mother earth<\/p>\n
These become excuses
\nThrowbacks from before
\nWhen vikings raped and pillaged
\nAlong the foreshore
\nThey an
\n island people
\nCut off by the expanse
\nOf tides and storms and mayhem
\nAnd what was their true romance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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