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Hold That Tiger

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A tyrant can shoot down a tiger but shakes in fear when someone whispers a poem.


A poem whispers down a tyrant but shakes when a tyrant shoots a woman.


A woman is a tiger shooting poems through a tyrant’s dreams.


Twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point-blank range.


Hold that tiger, hold that tiger…


- Mark Mordue


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About Mark Mordue

Mark Mordue is a writer, journalist and editor working internationally. He was awarded a 1992 Human Rights Media Award for his journalism. His travel book Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip was published in both Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2001) and the USA (Hawthorne Books, 2004). Film director Wim Wenders acclaimed it as the first book of its kind to take the road genre “into the 21st century”. Mark was 2001 Asialink Australian Writer-in-Residence at Beijing University and currently teaches writing and journalism at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He was Guest Editor of the literary journal Meanjin's 'On Rock ‘n’ Roll' issue (November 2006) and is currently in the process of completing a first novel for his M.A. in Writing (by Research) at UTS.

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