Here lie the bones of the whalebone whale <br /> <br />Who basked <br /> <br />Through a krillion filtered breakfasts <br /> <br />Who asked <br /> <br />For an extra blowhole <br /> <br /> <br />And God said Yes <br /> <br /> <br />Here lie the bones <br /> <br />Of the whalebone whale <br /> <br />Who cruised <br /> <br />Past murder-eyed killfish <br /> <br />And snoozed eyes wide <br /> <br />Below the sun's remains <br /> <br /> <br />Here in the deepest stillness now <br /> <br />Lie a whalebone whale's bones <br /> <br />Far from a seawater sky <br /> <br />Immemorial under the dark<br /><br />Jay Allard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mysticeti/
