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                                                    SANDRA E. LAIGHT

                          Great White Shark

 

Curious Carcharidon

Swimming through eternity

 

Did you glide past corroborees

on the shore

lonely for the experience?

 

Or did you recoil from the land

with an arc of your great tail

when you became aware of

the mortal coil that binds us?

 

Did a drop of Jesus' blood

make its way to you

as it trickled for centuries

down the beams of wood?

 

And what of the Sudanese?

Did you grow tired of the taste

of two million of them?

Or was their flesh

sweet and supple as the Tutsis,

The Kurds, Kosovars and Albanians?

 

You will never starve

Mesozoic marvel.

Your belly will always

be full

with our spoils.

And from the shore

we dare to call you

Beast.