DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

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  • Evil Knievel

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    Because I love life as much as Evel Knievel loved the idea of jumping the Grand Canyon

    DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

     She blamed the whole affair on Evel Knievel
    The way that he plunged right into
    The Grand Canyon
    Willing to shatter
    Like a broken kewpie doll
    With the over-played drone of his Hot-rod
    Engine, Roaring out the ancient songs
    Of road warriors and rewriting sacred
    Kamikaze vows
    to become a trivial question
    Worshipped by crash test dummies
    Who die again and again
    In the shotgun seats of smashed cars

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    Hampton commented on DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

    02-22-2011

    You have a very unique style which is quite refreshing. Write on.
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    shallenemcgrath

    02/24/2011

    Thank you Hampton. I always thought I was a little bit of a chameleon. I have some concrete poems that I haven't posted yet that are more like paintings. I have narrative stuff and then I even once wrote a free verse sonnet... I call it my one and only sad sonnet.

    Chaos128 commented on DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

    02-08-2011

    The ne plus ultra of the American dream: Walk right up to death and spit square in his eye ha ha... the trick is getting away with it : )
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    shallenemcgrath

    02/16/2011

    A nice set of gams helps the cause.

    Shrin commented on DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

    02-03-2011

    Shal wonderful... I loved the poem. I like your way of writing.
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    ginga commented on DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

    02-02-2011

    Shallene, You have penned a fine poem in the spirit of Evil Knieval. Vintage. ginga
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    shallenemcgrath

    02/02/2011

    I just love the idea of Evel! What a wonderful guy... I mean he knew that he might not make it- and that it might be his life... and with everyone watching he tried and failed.... but he will remain indelibly alive for those in the know. It didn't kill his spirit. I guess I put this here because someone asked me about writing poetry once.

    train64 commented on DAREDEVIL LOVER GIRL!

    02-02-2011

    I read this again because it is so friggn'--cool.. blame it all on Evel...
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    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.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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