“And man shall be just that for the overman: 


     a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment…” 


     — Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
 
At the outset, let me just say this:

this poem has Tourette’s — it wanted to be

a swear bear so I let it be — an MA15 poem

[Medium level profanity, mild

nudity] — a Kevin Rudd

of a poem & in it Sergei Bubka says fuck

yeah Steve Hooker’s awesome

as he lines up & GOES

FOR GOLD with his ginger

ringlets & bung knee

with his special pole shipped

through monsoons

to nama-fucken-ste the docks

Hooker pulls up proud,

flushed & elated & post-meet says

if some competitors are Delhi

no-shows that’s a matter

for their conscience, an elite

athlete’s soundbiting way

to say “weak as piss”

respectfully for the news.

    Polite people

everywhere (chef de bloody mission

Steve Monaghetti fr example) think (& sometimes

say) if you use cuss words in your work

(& not substitutes eg ‘pish’ or ‘tosh’)

it’s poor language command,

reflects badly on the team 1st, you 2nd, yr

family, yr school, yr nation, & so

the message goes down the shitter.

“Fuck ’em” says this poem & Kevin Rudd

says “ratfuck ’em” which is better

yet.  Possibly best.  Lolz I overpromised

on the nudity.  Apols.