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The Dolphin Chooses You

Gaston "Trey" King
3 min readDec 19, 2020

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Photo credit to Julie Hart

A serenity of salt surrounds our work with a mystic veil
Cool mornings, brash breaths forcing our faces to endure and enjoy the ocean.

Marine mammals begin their days floating, flopping and flapping for attention.
Numerous beings share numerous habitats, exploring, accelerating, and socializing.

Only three beautiful bouncing baby boys exist to push their mothers around.
Solely driven on topping one another for chaotic behaviors and toxic tendencies.

I walk alongside the poetic pools educating our guests, who is to approach me on my symbolic symmetry other than you?
‘Oli, the trying troublemaker others prefer to not deal with. A curious look of kindness envelopes his face.

“And here is my friend ‘Oli, go ahead and say hi ‘Oli!”
A moving manipulation of air sacks responds through squeaking whomping whistles.

He hears me as I hear him.

“He’s one of our three-year-old, male, Atlantic bottlenose dolphins! ‘Oli’s one of our troublemakers when it comes to behaving however he’s also my favorite. But don’t tell the other dolphins that!”

We continue onward as a multitude of mothers snap a memory of you.
We diverge into the past…

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Gaston "Trey" King
Gaston "Trey" King

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