<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392345" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Olympian Disgrace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even for a poet<br>It is difficult to evoke<br>The disgrace that are these 'Olympics'<br>The disgust I feel, that in some way<br>You are certainly feeling too<br>Because you are human<br>And literate, I assume<br>You know as well as anyone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How Tibet is occupied, these 55 years<br>Minorities suppressed, births controlled<br>Beliefs circumscribed, Inquisition-style<br>All those dissidents on trial<br>And the students in the square<br>(Has the Party apologised?) <br>Complicity in Darfur<br>Labour camps, all set aside<br>While athletes are being glorified</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not evoking Berlin,36<br>Nor the Soviet Moscow games<br>Nor the vicious oppression of minorities<br>In London Town (we'll come to that, no doubt) <br>I'm dealing with the here and now<br>Sports and games of the vainglorious<br>Corporate profits quick and furious<br>And the nausea in the air<br>As the smug and sly regime<br>Expectorates its justifications<br>And fake-righteous indignations<br>Into our faces, time after time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ashamed of the weakness of my voice<br>I will exercise my little choice<br>I won't be watching a single second<br>Jump or muscle-twitch or race</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to all the companies<br>Raking in dollars from backs bowed down<br>I know who you are: <br>You will not get my dime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392345" data-title="Olympian Disgrace de Frank Bana" data-description="Even for a poet It is difficult to evoke The disgrace that are these 'Olympics' The disgust I feel, that in some way You are certainly feeling too Because you are human And literate, I assume You know as well as anyone How Tibet is occupied, thes..."></div> </div> </div>

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