Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
The early Games were a religious festival from 776 B.C. To 393 A.D. In 393 A.D. They became outlawed for being a pagan festival. Baron Pierre de Coubertin started a revival of the games in 1894 A.K.A the modern Olympics.