Windbags yap when whales ingest a pup
or person, when in fact the episodes
that merit our amazement most are those
where whales bigheartedly barf baubles up.
The largish Tarshish fish that God bade sup
on Jonah gets decried for daring close
her jaws so cruelly, yet the day she throws
her meal up makes a more newsworthy scoop.
Likewise, that Disney doozy, that blue scourge
of splinter-skinned Pinocchio, deserves
our warm applause for opting to disgorge.
Why, just last week, a waif near Bangkok’s wharves
became a wealthy fellow when he lucked
on ten-pound ambergris some whale upchucked….
