After a visit from local poet Kevin McCann last year for Knowsley Borough's "Around the Borough in 80 Reads" our sea lions Max, Biffo and Arthur inspired their own poem.

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Photo-op
As the Sea-Lion
Hauls onto this platform-
Two shows daily ?
Clever dick similes
Swim through my mind :
He?s a
Slick grey piping bag
With
Eyes like sultanas,
Bewhiskered as
A Victorian toff
Who swings round like
Some loose gantry,
Blowing spitballs,

While I pose
With my book

He closes
The distance
Between us,
His hot breath
Scouring my throat,
Bares teeth
That could pare
Flesh from bone :

And in eyes,
Brown as kelp,

I float.

Kevin McCann