Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Zoological Gardens, Hunting, Scientific Practitioners

    Written from the perspective of the recently deceased porpoise at the Zoological Society Gardens, who asks a number of questions concerning the person responsible for its fate since it left the 'briny wave'. Asks, for example, 'Who dug me a freshwater grave, / And popped me into it' and 'Who cut me open'. The concluding words, 'F—k B—d', reveal that the accused is Francis T Buckland.