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 An article speaking about the prevention of whale hunting.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1458234.stm

Book 5 * Page 12

Whale hunters

Whale hunting’s still

not a thing of the past,

for countries still kill whales,

while the rest of the world is aghast.

So; Yo- ho ye sailors

with the vandalising streak.

What havoc upon the world's ecology

you reek.

Yo -ho to the Japanese

and to other whale slaughterers,

believing that whales are a food commodity

when swimming in their waters.

Yo ho to the memory,

may you reap the revengeful tale,

of the ghost of Moby Dick

and the man haunting whale.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au   dominicj7@poetry.net.au 30/6/99