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Bad Luck
By Wild Bill © copyright 1996 all rights reserved.
A lot was said when I was bred 'bout what I'd grow to be.
My aunts and uncles never thought knuckels would be my destiny.
That an old Pan head run with lead or a Shovel with chrome pipes,
To be frank, would turn my crank and bikers be my types.
Now to be straight I'll intimate the following non fiction,
That the model that turned my throttle and caused this bike addiction
Was the Evolution, that revolution in Harley Davidson design.
See I'm no wrench in a pinch with old bikes in decline.
I am in fact to be exact and everybody knows it,
Just some schmuck with the bad luck to be a Biker Poet.
"Rubber Side Down combines poetry, essays and photography to challenge the stereotype of the bad boy biker and chronicle the rise of the biker poet and biker poetry. Like cowboy poetry, biker poetry seems a genre on the rise. The book traces the beginnings of biker poetry to a poetry throwdown of sorts on a farm in Colorado in 1975, attended by an assortment of bikers and hippies and a young Hunter S. Thompson. The contributors to this book include the late Allen Ginsberg and Thom Gunn, Diane Wakoski, and a host of writers from the motorcycle press, including Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum (Harley-Davidson Historian Emeritus), Susan Buck, and K. Peddlar Bridges. In addition, a special photo section has been provided by noted motorcycle photographer, Michael Lichter ( Choppers, Heavy Metal Art and others). Rubber Side Down pushes beyond the typical image of the biker and shows that the biker community is made up of professional individuals from all walks of life and countries across the world, and highlights the emergence of biker poetry."
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