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Olympic Games<br />

The cavalcade of the Olympia<br />

Settled the sacred flame upon Berlin,<br />

Above the Hindenburg trails our banner,<br />

Below even the Juden are let in;<br />

Majestic roar,<br />

O scale Wagnerian,<br />

Where modern man does war in his coliseum.<br />

Canto III<br />

The rise of European tensions leading to the Second Great War<br />

As Jesse Owen took the track<br />

All eyes focussʹd upon him,<br />

Racist hatred of his skinʹs black<br />

Quadruplʹd the vigour’s vim,<br />

A leaping cheetah from the crack,<br />

The stadium grew dim,<br />

A whirl of pounding thighs & bursting lung...<br />

How proudly, then, ʹStar Spanglʹd Bannerʹ sung.<br />

See the pale, disgusted Fuhrer,<br />

This white supremacist,<br />

Watch some runner, some dumb nigger<br />

Win medals his men missʹd,<br />

Glance at his wrist, hiss, ʺI must leave...ʺ blood trickling from<br />

clenchʹd fist.<br />

Berlin<br />

1936<br />

The fanaticism of the lust for power which was... in former<br />

times inflamed by the belief one was in possession of the truth<br />

& which bore such beautiful names that one could<br />

thenceforward venture to be inhuman with a good conscience<br />

‐ to burn jews, heretics & good books & exterminate entire<br />

cultures<br />

Frederick Nietzsche

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