This morning I woke up and saw that I had a dolphin in my pool. I dont know who put it there or why they did it, but all I know is that now he wants to get out, and I’m mad that whoever put him there has made it my responsibility to set this dolphin free. It was one of those endangered ones, the kind that you dont see everyday, you know the ones that only exist in those art books, and my first thought was Damn!, I GOTTA GET THIS DOLPHIN TO THE OCEAN!! So I went inside and got him some food, splashed some water on him and told him Ima make sure he gets to the ocean. I started to feel like this dolphin in my pool was a blessing because now it gave meaning to my life, something for me to accomplish. Once I set this dolphin free I would have done something worth writing a book about, filming a movie for, or calling the news over, because I will be the one who saved it. So, I go to class, then go to work, and I forget all about that dolphin during the day, but when I come home I splash a lil water on it and feed it just enough to keep it alive until I can take the time to take him to the ocean. Now all my neighbors have heard this dolphin in my pool and their peeking over my fence to get a glimpse at it. Everyday on my way to work I have to listen to the people looking over my fence asking me what I’m going to do with this dolphin. “Are you gonna free it? When? All the way to the ocean? How much money you gonna get for that?” And as the days go by I start to realize the sacrifice I’m going to have to make if I want this dolphin to swim free because just splashing a lil water on it every other night isn’t doing it any good. Yeah, I have a dolphin in my backyard that the whole neighborhood comes to see, but this is becoming unwanted attention because they all want to know what I’m going to do with it now. Everybody has a suggestion and an opinion, but nobody wants to help. Night after night I’m listening to this dolphin splashing in the pool and I realize if I don’t dedicate my time to freeing him, he is going to die. Now I’m realizing that I might not be able to set this dolphin free. I’m starting to hope that the people on my block will just forget that he’s there, but every now and then he’ll splash a lil water and the neighborhood comes running, critics and all, to get a glimpse. I start to think that maybe I just don’t have the time or energy to get this dolphin to the ocean. Maybe I should just go to school, and go to work and just let him die in the pool. Once he’s dead he can no longer splash around and keep me up at night. But I know every now and then ill invite someone over and they’ll wander in my backyard and ask me questions about that dead dolphin in my pool. What will I tell them? What will they think of me? And eventually he’ll start to stink. And draw flies. And I’m gonna have to move it out of my pool and get it to the ocean to burry it. Then ill realize that in the end, it takes the same amount of time, money, and energy to move a dead dolphin as it does a live one, just now its in vain. If your blessed/cursed with a dolphin swimming in your backyard your gonna have to either free it or burry it….. ,but either way you are going to have to get him outta that pool.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 am
AS always…. Amazing….
November 6th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
The dolphin symbolizing our youth…I’m assuming. Pretty thought provoking; good stuff!
April 8th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Thank you – i like this post