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We Must Let Go of the Whale Who Will Not Let Go of Her Dead Baby

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Some humans are really feeling this message.by Charles MudedeWhy no poems or posts about us happy whales? Because, as Hegel once wrote, "periods of happiness... are blank pages."Riegsecker/GettyImages.com
And now there is a poem. It's for the mother orca whale who, for over a week, has been pushing the corpse of a baby she hardly even knew (it only lived for 30 minutes). Two days, I understand. Four days is the borderline. Eight days is just plain nuts, even for a whale. (I once read about a mot

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