Museworthy: Hostage Sonnet

Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - 11:00

Museworthy


Museworthy: Hostage Sonnet


he lost his head because they

realised the scale of value: try

one white for one hundred blacks

and then further down, one hundred

blacks from here equals about a

thousand from there... “Go West, young man” and not for some

wild holiday where life is as cheap

as the beer or else you might be

recognised for what you are: a

Young Gold God with a sense of

adventure through a lens that is hardly cheap and think

about value a bit harder

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 (UQP), is forthcoming.
She is 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 20, 2002.

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