Manta Ray (Manta birostis) being butchered on a beach in
San Luis, Batangas circa 1999. Photos by the author.
It's murder cold as steel, but who would say
but the magistrate or the fool?
food for the fisherman and his cohorts,
their children going to school.
It's murder cold as steel, and it got away,
one day, next time, 'til there's none
to murder, and lo! to the culprits robbed
by none other but what they've done.
And the sea becomes still in emptiness:
where have these Chondrichthyes gone,
their allies that make the web of living,
the children going to school? ~
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