Whale Hunting [Graphic]

HUNTING THE WHALE :
With great blade of flensing knife,
long-poled to carve the second story of the whale,
they slice the blubber from the sides and back,
slabs laid long and narrow, stacked; the oily fat
within the hold leaks in foot-deep pools
around the layers of the lowest flesh...
enough to light the homes of connoisseurs.
A pallid, waxen trove of sabered riches
from the plunging whale, lanced from sturdy boats
pulled next the blackened gleam, the harpoon's taut line
leading to the ebbing god of depths,
stabbed in the brain that Boston wealth and light,
banks and lamps might shed their warming glow
a hundred years. And sailors, young and old,
may test their strength and pocketbook against
the gliding monster, black and red upon
the sea, that in its bloody, thrashing throes
may crush their frail barques to smithereens.

"Thar she blows," the cry from crow's nest high;
bound to longboat, in haste to lower away;
pull strongly on the oar, draw near their prey,
huge, darkly bright in shining ocean spray.
The harpooneer checks his lance, makes sure
the coil of rope is clear, bracing in the bow.
Despite the heaving sea, the spear is cast
from leaping boat with intact, sinewed aim,
deep in the head, behind the eye; tailing,
snaking line uncoiling to the rear. Quickly,
the spearman grasps another, to follow
its fatal fellow in pursuit of a dollar.




Before it can submerge in an ocean grave,
they tow and lash the whale to the mother ship,
for second butchery. Cleared at last
of all things claimed by man...baleen bone
for ladies' corsets, oil for light in darkest
Massachusetts, the derelict is cut free
-- a great white cage for some Jonah undersea --
its bonds released, to slowly sink away
from shrieking seabirds' frenzied feeding,
to waiting fish and crabs, creeping crustaceans
crawling far below on the bottom, sandy,
clear of weed and muck, but for the awesome
bones with tattered shreds of white like waving flags
of truce too late unfurled, that settle,
come to rest upon the seabed far beyond
the men of Boston toiling on their ship,
tending to the rigging, final storage,
cleansing of the deck and razor flensing tool
that took treasure from the sea to darkened hold...

where such as Ishmael, Ahab, Starbuck, are carved
from the carcass of imagination,
an inner stew of fact and fancy, bits and chunks,
mundane, sad, profound; combined to brew
a savage bouillabaisse of misbegotten man.
A great white whale, born in the mind -- poetic
mix of mystery and unconsciousness --
become the tale of God and men; the earth,
the sea, the stars; the God-given madness
of the mind that afflicts, destroys us all...
to be reborn from the sea, quest and die again.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Whale
• hunting
• sea
• fish
• japan
• blood
• save
• life
• eye
• blue

[canalAlexF]

The human race is surely the least rational of all species, the most cruel and bloodthirsty.

[leolux10]

Just gotta love this music. Sad, yet inspiring. :)

On a side note, whale hunters, and all other animal poachers should have their parents and loved ones hunted in front of them, before being annihilated themselves. That way, they get to see the damage they cause, and we get to be rid of their kind. Oh yeah, and sell their body parts to local labs or some shit. They make a profit off of murdering animals. Why can't we profit from eradicating them?

Save Mother Earth' and her Children!!!

[OHBGEEK4HIRE1998]

@leoux10 On @sirseansteezy behalf let me explain how you are completely fucking wrong. One, after a comment such as yours wouldn't anger be an appropriate natural response? (Just imagine the same comment but with whales, sense you obviously cannot feel sympathy for anything other your precious animals) An two, just because you have a more popular comment it docent make it ethically right or reasonable. Go back to making your bomb to blow up a meat factory and leave us the fuck alone!!!!

[786prelude]

May god never forgive you and may you pay for all that is wrong in today's world!

[leolux10]

@sirseansteezy LMAO Heeey!!! Me too.

[sirseansteezy]

@leolux10 ahhhhhhhh you got me! damn. I love whales.

[leolux10]

@sirseansteezy Nope, you lame. lol When did I try that? When YOU called ME names, over my obviously more popular comment? lol Yeah. I'd say that was you who was so 'caring', that you even had to reply to it. lmao Dumb ass.

[sirseansteezy]

@OHBGEEK4HIRE1998 i like you.

[sirseansteezy]

@leolux10 wow. thats amazing. i care so much. your response to the video was dumb enough, thanks for making it even better :) you tried to pick a fight over a whale video. wow.

[leolux10]

@astroguyver Really!!? :D Where's your mom? I haven't seen that fat bitch in ages!!! xD

[leolux10]

@sirseansteezy And your vie for compassion is automatically thwarted by your unexpected ignorant outburst, at the end of your comment. Good job at failing at conveying your message, you dumb fuck. How about YOU go find a girlfriend now. I'm sure your blow-up version has had enough by now.

Btw, I'm an intellectual whose parents were married at my time of birth. There goes your "dumb bastard" theory. lmao Pussy. <--- Go get you some of that and quit worrying about Earth's killers.

[leolux10]

@willkv98 You stfu, homo 'hippo'. You can be done with you as well. As a whale is far more important.