Sydney

We blunder through each business meal.
to watch big business make its case
A Mark so many came to feel
Mark of money. Mark of place.

The many claims for men he took.
So many women claim his mind.
The many feels: how many look.
For pants-led damages we find

In her killer-David claim
Many other store’s agreed.
That the bosses harmless name
phoned in flames a Savage deed

But most in daily press we claim.
How her power-digger work
touched unwelcome women shame
And gagged in gold our Fraser-Kirk


* Text 100% recycled from “The damage done,” by Fenella Souter, in The Sydney Morning Herald’s GoodWeekend, December 4, 2010; pp. 16-24