Amazonian Delivery - Edit

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Amazonian Delivery


Tribes from times primordial
in jungles equatorial
dine well on piscatorial
endeavors gustatorial:

they poison creek or pond
underneath a forest frond,
then select from fish they stunned
for the choicest, most rotund.

The indigenous discovered
small fry swim away, recovered
for next year’s river-delivered
prime piranhas to be savored.

So sustainable a system
that we moderns short on wisdom
call unsporting and arrest ‘em
though our nets and hooks can’t best ‘em.

original version;

Tribes from times primordial
in jungles equatorial
dine well on piscatorial
endeavors long traditional:

they poison creek or pond
underneath a forest frond,
then select from fish they stunned
for the choicest, most rotund.

Small fry swim away, recovered–
tribesmen long ago discovered–
for next year’s river-delivered
feast of fillets charred and skewered.

So sustainable a system
which we moderns in our wisdom
make illegal and arrest ‘em
(as for fish hooks, they detest ‘em).

A galumph in anthropology.  The aboriginal people don't actually hate fish hooks, they were merely surprised when introduced to the concept by Europeans... and did not quite see the point.  Piranhas are apparently good eating when you can place the little terrors at a disadvantage...