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Modern Olympian Ode #2 (2012): The Apparently Once-and-Future Obscenity
Michael Ceraolo
It has been several decades
since the term women’s gymnastics
wasn’t a misnomer,
and that fact hasn’t changed during
the celebration of the current champion,
a celebration of fake diversity,
a celebration of deliberate growth-stunting
so as to conform to the perverted ideal,
a celebration that makes all who watch
enablers of child abuse