to be trapped in some net and hauled up
on a deck
rolling around its hard to keep check
rolling around in the ice and the rain
and getting a knife handle bashing your brain
These are the French fishermen of the sea
6000 of us, dying slowly
wretched and broken thats how we be
the fuss at Taiji well we are busted here
However playful
really its clear
compassion is so hard to come by at sea
dolphins or orca’s nothing is free
and nobody cares not any more
we are clever and joyful still they ignore
our tears and our sobs and our blood dripping fast
caring for us is a thing of the past.
in your mothers back bedroom
What do you see fuck all I tell you
and thats how we be by catch
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.