The Vic Market, as it is known to republicans, has been running for around 130 years – sometimes as a fruit and vegetable market, other times as a cemetary, a livestock market, a hot spot for gun toting extortionists, a school and a drill hall.  At approximately 17 acres, the market is the largest of its kind and, interestingly enough, the largest urban grid-connected solar photovoltaic installation in the Southern Hemisphere. Steve Smart and the 9,000 unknown people whose remains are still located underneath the carpack after the partial relocation of the cemetary are comforted by these facts no end.

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This poem is a part of The Stately Strut.