Thar She Blows Poem by Ima Ryma

1970 - a dead whale,
Bloated on an Oregon beach.
Bureaucrats opted to avail
Of dynamite - the end to reach
Of out of sight then out of mind.
The manmade blast blew blubber on
All of the amassed humankind.
The thrill and excitement were gone,
But lots of the carcass remained,
Now still more of a stinkaroo.
Bureaucrats regrouped and rebrained,
For health and safety what to do.

Oregon banned blowing up, and
Bury dead beached whales in the sand.