Poems of the Week

Übermensch

by Julia Griffin

“A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws,
duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion.”
The Guardian

„Todt sind alle Götter: nun wollen wir, dass der Übermensch lebe.“— …
Also sprach Zarathustra, Nietzsche

“The gods are all dead,” Zarathustra foresaw,
“And it’s Übermensch time!” Well, we bought it:
And the Über deceived the police, broke the law,
Bribed, bullied, and lied. Who’d have thought it?