Museworthy: Millions of Secrets

Last year the government
Created 6.8 million secrets
Roughly the same number
As the previous year
But that doesn't take into account
The effects of the war
Said an annual report
Issued yesterday

I promised I would never tell
But they cut off
A man's balls in front of me
I couldn't stop talking

The President wrote a letter
Accompanying the report
To praise the government
For keeping secrets during the war
While providing for
An informed public

When my wife whispers
In my ear
In my bed
My cock dies
And I sweat
But we keep our secrets

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, January 16, 2002.

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From GLW issue 476