"Porpoise Mouth"
Breathe in
Breathing
Breath
Taking
Taken in
Gasps
Gaps of
Snapshots
Taking
Token
Photos
Forever
Whole
Your
Hole is
Holier
... by observation like fish in a bowl,
others too, share an equal fate that's found
in other kinds, be East to the mid-pole
California's Gulf shallows curb sound.
Vaquitas, small porpoises with large dark
rings around their eyes and dark patches on
their lips. Shore swimmers have created stark
wrath of repeated deaths net tangles done.
In 2015, CBS had placed
their numbers to be less than a hundred.
A new report lists eighteen as its based
end count. Extinction less than ten years, zed.
Spanish named "Little Cow" will be a ghost.
They'd wade at standards to be seen by most.
Porcupine fell in love with Porpoise today.
Protective quills ready at the stay.
Porpoise dove down with his blunt snout.
Porcupine smiled; in love with the lout.
It can never be actualized Porcupine said.
But I will love you totally until the day I am dead.
Porpoise said, “I feel exactly the same about you. “
They were star crossed lovers, these magnificent two.
Spent my life looking for purpose
what if that is what it is
The porpoise of life
Fish
She’s out there, somewhere
swimming in salty smooth seas,
laughing like Flipper.
This little tubby cousin
Of the dolphins has no beak.
He’s very shy and talks,
Not with a click, but with a sneezy squeak!
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