Beloved Figures

Clara Schumann
Sits at a Baby Grand
Touches the keys.
Exquisitely......... The crowd is stunned.

Joined in vocal. By Yoko Ono.
Then, as well, Deborah Cheetham

As Orlando Appears
On the arm of
Virgina Woolf
Having just stepped out of her car,
As we see from the arched doorway,
And followed by
The blue convertible roadster of Nancy Drew.

These last three 
Take a seat on the sofa opposite Anne Summers
And Emily Pankhurst,
Assuring a full challenging brilliant conversation
And especially when
Germaine Greer
Enters at this particular point
To contribute her own Virgina Woolf-like
Unanswerable stroke
Of 'where how and why'
What happened?!!!

Certainly every one of them
Would be 'up to it'
Which is exactly why,
They are such a Threat/TREAT?
To Man's Progress
Towards
And that is the Question??? ??? ???

Further, and Knowing
The struggles, The Baitings, Jealousies and Tactical Manoeuvrings
Of those Determined
To retain their accustomed Place/s in the Queue/s

Rather like the events
Leading from Cleopatra's Audacious Presumptions
To
Generals Gossiping, Savage Maligning
Leaving her a choice of Suicide rather than Public Humiliation

Now an electrifying bolt
Of green and purple
Colour
As Emily Pankhurst,
Walks up to the artistic Reproduction
Of .........'s Fur-lined Tea Cup
Picks it up,
Ponders out loud,
'Is it Faux, or Recycled Hide?'

At which point
Clara Schumann's music group
Subtly changes pace,

Auriel Andrews joins,
Clara Schumann at the piano still,
There is another musical consideration
How to Make the Most 
In this unfortunate current situation?

And from various places in the room
Come voices including
Karla Grant,
Margaret Whitlam, Marie Bashir, Julia Gillard,
Susan ryan,
Anne Summers,
Eva Cox
And of course many others

With answers varying
Quality reflecting
Their Intelligence Their wit Their Brilliance