Start Talking Dolphin

by JOE BALAZ

If you like living
in beach communities

it may be time to master
wun new language

filled wit high-pitched 
clicking sounds

and distinctive whistles.

Someting will soon be altering 
your existence

and changing 
da way you communicate. 

Da ocean is getting fat
and rising steadily. 

Soon da ting going bulge
into wun new elevation.

Wats needed right now

is some urgent tail 
and flipper slapping

to create wun loud noise

and warn everybody
about da danger dats coming.

Climate change is really happening
and it’s no fiction

cause measured science
is staring you in da face.

In da future

you may find
dat echolocation works really well

wen you look 
foa your grandparents’ gravestones

dat stay submerged undahwatah.

It’s wun frightening scenario
but it should be scary

cause lots of environmental situations
around da world

going be affected too.

So just try imagine

dat you taking wun jump in da air
foa wun brief moment

to see how everyting wen change

before you plunge back
into da sea.

Start talking dolphin

and in regards 
to da global emergency

maybe human words
will begin to make moa sense.