Tommy the Tur-tllee was king of Siberia...until he was mauled by a giant, pollution-emitting truck. We sh0uld be ashamed ourselves, not only as Hopkins students, but as citizens of this great country that we dare to call the land of the free and the home of the brave. Was Tommy not brave??????? Was he not free????? Tommy the Tur-tllee led a simple life. He had a family, five little turtle mouths to feed. Who's to say they aren't out there on Forest Road now, walking in the path their father dared tread on. They peer into our parking spaces whimpering, "Papa?" He'll never answer their desperate calls.
You might be asking, why are we wasting so much valuable space on Tommy the Tur-tllee? The answer: there is no good answer. But Tommy made me think. Do we pretend to care about the environment and then run over its creatures? Do we drive our huge cars over animals on our way to organic food markets? Hmmm....
But back to Tommy. He shall be missed. Let this be a caution to ALL of you drivers out there: turtles are people too. Really small, green, four-legged, shelled people. But they are people.
Thanks to Aishah for her love/support/commentary.
CLAIRE. you need to post more often. i love you.
ReplyDeleteand aishah should be a guest writer.