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"The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle. You know, the kind who lives on the edge, the free spirit. But he's also gotta have the soul of a poet and a brilliant mind. So, you know, good luck."
~ Lucinda Williams

For more than a decade Wild Bill's Culture Corner has been the #1 location for Biker Poetry on the internet!

Bad Luck

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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