When, long ago, the Gods created Earth,
In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NI99ER.
"On the Creation of Ni99ers" (1912) from chapter "Barbarian & Alien: 1908-1914" in H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi.
Yes, Lovecraft used the correct uncensored word, but I have altered it here to help defeat the simplest of "hate" web filters. According to Joshi, this poem was not published; "The text survives, however, in a hectographed copy, which suggests that Lovecraft may at least have passed this poem around to friends or family; it is likely that they approved–or at least did not object–to his sentiments."
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