Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Friday 27 July 2012

Leda and the Interlocking Rings

In the days of the True Olympics
when competitors were young
and male and naked
and represented only themselves,
their trainers, 'coaches' or sponsors
would very likely also have been
their (much older, male) lovers.

How things have changed !
In these days of the Nationalist
and Corporate Ollimpix,
athletes (who devote their entire lives
to the gold-plated goose
of 'success') even complain of sexual abuse...

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