Jules:	This dolphin looks like a bird.
Soo:	Or ballet dancer.
Andrei:	Not to most fishermen. Too often dolphins are seen as rival predators err else alternative protein sources.
Philyra:	I know. Isn't this what happens when we see things merely as raw commodities?
Ellesha:	It goes deeper: humans often view each other that way. That makes everything seem cheap & degraded.

An shards ah time we ere a swimmin'
in kurrants deäper thun thay seem

If ya sea pysst the bracken gloss, umpteén
kuns, toxic resins & micro-trash
stränge questions surface
such az
How kun we move through the waters
ah kreation mure kleanly
'n swim with lightness 'n speede?

Grate dolphins
alrody knuw tha answers:
observe thim klosely
ta learn böut light
ness, art & speede

Edukrate those
lacking fins err
smooth dynamicks -
eventually all will
ta muuv gracefully

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