They ate blubber, cooked with blubber, had
blubber lamps. Their clothes and gear were
soaked with blubber, and the soot
blackened them, their sleeping
bags, cookers, walls and
roof, choked their throats
and inflamed
their tired
eyes.
From Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, a banned pamphlet by GM Levick, scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition.
Verbatim Poetry 