Dancing on the Pedals

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

Beast

Vicious
is the word.
Savage
is the climb.
	Stage 12, 2000 On Mount Ventoux

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