This was an in class assignment where we were directed to write a poem from the perspective of a historical (loosely defined) figure who you did not understand. Having recently watched the documentary Blackfish, about the trainer killed at SeaWorld, I took the idea of whalenapping from the ocean. The quotes are not from the movie they are just concepts and ideas that I took from seeing it, with some nonfiction in there as well.

BLACKFISH

I don't even think it
counts as rationalizing
if you have to talk
yourself into it.

"We cornered them
in a bay and did
whatever it took 
to get the babies."

"Whatever it took?"

"Yeah, so we wrangled
nets around the
mamas and the babies
and did 
whatever it took."

And they did.
They killed four mamas
because they were
going to do
whatever it took.

Snatched the babies,
slit open the mamas,
stuffed them with
anchors and pulleys,
like they were the
bird on Thanksgiving.

Then sunk them in
the ocean,
like they were women
who had sinned,
all in the name of
entertainment for the
children of America.

Love from Pullman,

The Blonde and The Bullshit