Museworthy: Hostage Sonnet

February 20, 2002
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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 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, February 20, 2002.
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