Museworthy: Jose Touches His Toes

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 10:00

Museworthy


Museworthy: Jose Touches His Toes


Jose's smooth bum

leans up against the cold wall

Tight pants

go all the way to the floor

And Jose says

“It feels like a cunt

It really does”

And the man looks

at Jose's smooth face

and small hands

and tight smile and says

“I ain't never had

a woman in prison,

you sayin' I should

start now?”

Tight pants

fall all the way to the floor

And Jose touches his toes

and says

“Unnecessary,

just look on it as a

situational constraint.”

BY MTC CRONIN

MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most recent
being Bestseller (Vagabond Press, 2001) and My Lover's Back —
79 Love poems (UQP, 2002). After being employed for most of the 1990s
in law, she has in recent years begun teaching literature and creative
writing at secondary schools and universities. She is currently working
on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart. Her books
are available by contacting her at <margie_cronin@hotmail.com>
or phone (02) 9550 2918.

From Green Left Weekly, July 10, 2002.

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