Porty Streets

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Grant O'rourke

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Kicking about on the Porty streets
Going to buy a few cans of pilchards
My whole life ahead of me

I'm popped off and I've been dropped off
By my mum
As I strut about in my favourite croptop
A quick shop stop to buy a big bag of treats
I've got 9 pound so I buy 18 cans
Nearly 3 kilos in my blue plastic bag
370 grams of pilchard protein
I knock them back I'm guzzling hard
My lips and tongue giving each one the honour guard
Can after can and I still don't feel complete
The omega oils have got my mind racing
What is it that I want
What is it that I'm chasing
18 cans later and I'm off my feet

Passed out on the Porty streets
I feel like I've eaten a million pilchards
I open up my eyes and see
There's a crowd gathered round
Looks like half the town's come out
And they're all talking about me

They're saying
How did he make it this far inland
Normally you just find them beached on the sand
He's lost.  He must be so frightened.  He looks so weak
A woman empties a bucket over me full of water
I could have objected, maybe I could have fought her
But I'm listless with the pilchards and I can barely speak
Some of the men pick me up and start carrying me down
Through the streets to the beach of old Porty town
Cheering each other on and I start to understand
They're trying to return me to my ocean home
I feebly protest as they film it all on their phones
I say
But I'm not a sea creature
I'm a man

Pushed into the Porty sea
Into the natural domain of the pilchards
And I've got nothing left to give
Every time I try to leave
They push me back in to the Porty sea
They think that this is where I live

And as I look at all their empty smiles I start to find
A peace of mind at being unaligned with human kind
I'm disinclined towards the grind of how I've been designed
And I shall live in this fair world behind
I turn around to face the grey expanse ahead of me
I feel the limitless horizon start to beckon me
I fill my lungs
I dive into the spray
To the sound of the crowd cheering that sends me on my way

Swimming about in the endless seas
With all my pilchard brothers and sisters
A new life ahead of me
Maybe I'll return one day
Or maybe I'll keep living my life my own way
Happy just to be

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