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Inscription for the wall of a power station

A topical poem for Social Justice Week Matiu Jackson fell from the face of a dam, 18 years old and lately out of borstal. They buried him without a tangi. John Ball died here drunk, yelling, Pinned under the blade of a bulldozer. Thomas Macfarlane, killed when the tunnel caved in… Ko te Kawana rite […]