Cormorants

By John I. Blair

Word is out this week;

The Feds will finally knuckle under

To the sporting PACs

And agree to say

It’s okay

To kill as many cormorants as we want.

And after all,

Who has better right to fish

In American waters:

Common predators,

Or God’s own humans,

Given dominion over Earth

And all its creatures

By fiat domini?

So what if bird huggers

Pop a vein

And say that we’re insane?

That just makes me chuckle.

I plan to still be casting bait

When cormorants,

Like those tasty passenger pigeons,

Are just memories.

©2003 John I. Blair

(Originally published on www.poetism.com)