EVEL KNIEVEL

EVEL KNIEVEL, TRULY, NO EQUAL, HEART OF THE PEOPLE, SOARED LIKE AN EAGLE
EVEL KNIEVEL, NOSE LIKE A WEASEL, JUMPED TO THE STARS, PAINTED AN EASEL
HE PAINTED AN EASEL
——–WITH HIS BLOOD, AND HIS GUTS, BONES; BROKEN, AND BRANDED
—–BY THE SMOKE, AND THE FIRE, AND THE PAIN, IT, DEMANDED

EVEL KNIEVEL, JUMPED OVER THE STEEPLES, REACHED, FOR THE STARS, REPRESENTED THE PEOPLE
—–FOR HE, CRAWLED, AND HE STOOD AND HE FELL AND HE SOARED

AND HE CLIMBED AND HE FELL AND HE SPOKE AND HE ROARED

BUT, ON THAT DAY —INTO THE CANYON
PERHAPS, THAT IS THE DAY, AMERICA, DIED
—THE HOPES, AND THE DREAMS, AND THE PATRIOT’S PRIDE
DROPPED, INTO THE SEAMS, OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME

THEN, THE STEEL, IN A FLASH, COLLAPSED INTO DUST
TOWERS, DEMOLISHED——–INTO WARS, NEVER ENDING,
SOCIOPATHS, AND FRAUDULENT SCHEMES, TERROR, CONFUSION,
SET ON A STAGE; MADNESS, AND HATRED, ENVY, AND RAGE———

BUT, AS SURE, AS THE TRUTH, UNFOLDS FROM THE LIES ——
——-EYES STRAIN WITH THE LIGHT, AS THE SUN BREAKS THE DAWN
——–FOR, WHAT WILL REMAIN, WHEN ALL ILLUSION IS GONE?

——-BUT—-
EVEL KNIEVEL, TRULY NO EQUAL, HEART OF THE PEOPLE, SOARED LIKE AN EAGLE
EVEL KNIEVEL, PAINTED AN EASEL, REACHED FOR THE STARS, REPRESENTED THE PEOPLE

TO:
EVEL KNIEVEL,
NEVER DEFEATED,
MAY YOU SOAR WITH THE STARS,
AND, YOUR SPIRIT, BE PEACEFUL

MAY YOU SOAR WITH THE STARS
AND, YOUR SPIRIT, BE PEACEFUL