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There was a walrus
\nused to hang with whales.
\nHis bonding efforts
\nall were epic fails.
\nHe had no blubber
\nnor blow hole.
\nHe didn’t have
\na whaling soul.
\nHis tusks, they said,
\nwere too damned long.
\nHe couldn’t sing
\nthe whaling song.
\nHis body couldn’t glide
\nthroughout the water.
\nThey shunned him
\nand he said, Okay,
\ngo on about
\nyour humpback way.
\nI’ll miss your krill,
\nbut I won’t miss
\nyour slaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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