Anti-Poem Poem by Anthony Weir

Obviously, song came before speech
and moans came before song.
Whales sing refrains and antiphons,
compose sonatas.

Darwin thought that certain fish designed their own eyes;
researchers report that the planet's remaining fish not only
like but can also recognise
the less-commercial human music.

[Perhaps a line here ending with 'status'...]
[Perhaps a line here ending with 'God'...]
I both fear and pity people who think they are better than cod