Museworthy: Advertising Works (for Morris Dees)
The ad said “Soft On Crime”
the black man was out of prison
on work release and did what prisoners
do on that, committed a crime
Attacked a white woman in a photo
on telly in a wedding dress (white) while
he was cuffed behind,
his wild and fearful hair, “Soft On Crime”
But I don't wanna watch TV, if I can
I want to have dinner with the man
who bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan
Either that, or have dinner with a black man
He attached a white woman to the dashboard of his car and drove off...
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had six books of poetry published, the most recent being Talking to Neruda's Questions and Bestseller (both Vagabond Press, 2001). Another collection, My Lover's Back, is forthcoming in 2002 (UQP). She is currently working on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart, and has recently received an Established Writers New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her books are available by contacting her at: <margie_cronin@hotmail.com> or ph: (02) 9550 2918.
From Green Left Weekly, February 13, 2002.
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