When one country has enough power to crush to smithereens all of Nature's creation on earth, what need has it to go after small fish?
IF ever I had a country XI - XII
IF ever I had a country
And if ever I were but the Admiral of the Fleet
I'd issue an edict to keep ships out of foreign waters
I'd order all on deck on or off duty curse-under-breath sailors
To fish out of oceans crushed cans and twisted plastic bottles
And whatever else poisons sardines dolphins sharks and whales
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I'd see to it that all our ancestors of the primal soup deep
Were brought onto land with all their shredded creep
And to the tune of the Divine Land's Anthem make all weep
In solemn burial ceremonies commit such memories to keep
That is, if ever I were but the Admiral of the Fleet
And even if I never ever had no country
Bonjour Ron ! Glad you like the poem, just like the previous instalment, which means you like this world enough to want to preserve its natural environment. If you will read Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", you'll see you are also like his class of being: wanting the same thing: justice, humanitarianism and fairness. Hope this gets posted! Every good wish.
Great thoughts expressed, Admiral. We have too much of a good thing. Plastic is ubiquitous and so easily disposed. Plastic is choking the lifeblood of the oceans. Like your poem, we need to launch a war at sea to gather up all of the plastic we can before it strangles the life of us all.
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