Chinatown Fishmongers
When I lived there,Vancouver’s Chinatown was the second biggest in North America (after San Francisco’s) I’d never really been in it to see all the very weird and wonderful shops, till one day…
Today I went to Chinatown
Just to check it out
To see the shops and look around
To see what it’s all about
There were shops selling lobsters and crabs
And fish from saltwater tanks
A man said “Can I help you?”
I just said “No thanks”
I stopped and looked
And to my dismay
I saw this fesh seafood
Was a live display
A Chinese fishmonger’s
It seemed pretty cruel to me
Crabs piled high just waiting to die
And end their misery
The fish were staring at me
Through the murky stinking kelp
Their mouths were plainly saying
Help, help, help.
January 1993
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