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This is excerpted from Dancing on the Pedals: The Found Poetry of Phil Liggett, arranged by Doug Donaldson and published by Breakaway Books : a lighthearted, ironic arrangement into verse of Phil Liggett's enthusiastic, creative narrations of the Tour de France. Anyone who has ever watched the Tour on TV or video knows Phil and his legendary flights of rhetorical brilliance. |
Daily Dichotomy
Very light winds
and very hot indeed
it will be an easy day
to destroy yourself
Stage
17, 1996
Domestique Blues
Their job now is very simple:
You race to the limit of your ability.
When you can't do any more,
you get out
of the way.
Stage
13, 2002
On the USPS team pulling Armstrong to his fourth tour victory
United Nations
In that breakaway there's
six nations represented
and seven different teams
and with seven teams up there,
it's unlikely that this breakaway will be caught
Stage
12, 1996
Inquisition
It's only a mountain
one of many you can see
on this French country morning
but for one hundred seventy-one young men
it would be a place
where they would dare
to ask themselves
the questions
of greatness
Stage
10, 1987
On an Individual time trial up Mont Ventoux, on of the most grueling stages
in Tour history