{"id":84,"date":"2023-09-04T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-09-04T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T19:48:30","slug":"sorrowful-stew-a-poem-by-roxie-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/sorrowful-stew-a-poem-by-roxie-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorrowful Stew (a poem by Roxie Walsh)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Divine, graceful, charming, misunderstood being<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constantly shamed for an abundance of eating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thrashing through the sea, protector of your reef<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knew humans would cause you such grief<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An elegant creature made a killer by we<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A danger to humans I would disagree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>        We drag large nets through your home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking your fish, mollusks and all that you know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We destroy your safe haven for our benefit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we leave you on the floor without fins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your way of frolicking and moving about and moving about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We came into your life and threw you out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    And I, a feeble bystander watching you crumble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I just sit here and silently fumble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twiddling my thumbs as you lie on the floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tossing and turning and nothing more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On vacations I&#8217;d observe your domain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lifeless being is what you&#8217;ll remain <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>      Once your limbs are cut and sold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are placed into a porcelain bowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be soup that no one likes to consume<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But eaten to be seen as wealthiest in the room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reputation and status should not be a reason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To kill of a species should be punished with treason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>      A betrayal of mother nature with all she&#8217;s creating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killing her children for status and rating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a matter of time the shark will fade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then another species we will invade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consuming for money and reputation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less resources, more inflation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     We all deserve a right to survive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Humans beat everyone else times five<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have clothes, weapons and tools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creatures only have instincts and rules<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To some this topic may be new <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sad truth to a sorrowful stew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divine, graceful, charming, misunderstood being Constantly shamed for an abundance of eating Thrashing through the sea, protector of your reef Who knew humans would cause you such grief An elegant creature made a killer by we A danger to humans I would disagree We drag large nets through your home Taking your fish, mollusks and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/sorrowful-stew-a-poem-by-roxie-walsh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sorrowful Stew (a poem by Roxie Walsh)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesharkissue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}