On thread:
Thanks, Michael Schumacher. You are a professional and a great driver.
Out of thread (at least, not for Principessa's quotations):
Darkness and the Shadow of Light
by James O'Barr
I feel like a statue of an armless angel
Broken; hurt
Flawed at my very core,
Rage jets thru my veins, a
Black blood poison
Hot with fury
It rolls off me like smoke, like
Sad music
My soul rises up from the
Red sky of the west
A fiery chariot amassed of
Iron; steel:
Engine parts
Bones, both human and animal
With a hideous velocity I
Scream across the heavens,
Washing the countryside in
A sick sweet death like some
Monstrous plague
Anger boils over me in a
Screaming rain and
I want to destroy everything;
If I were a god everything
Would die a slow, horrific
Death
I look at my arms.
There are spiders in my veins,
They are glossy blue-black:
The color of sin, the color
Of a waxed Porsche.
The crimson hourgasses on their backs
Shine like Christmas tree decorations
The spiders mate, they f***
In my blood
Discharging a sick dead venom
That dozes up and down my
Arteries
Eating at the last innocence
Of my soul
To live, I must release them
With trembling fingers
I pick up a straight razor,
Its rusted serrated edge like
The fringe of a shadow
The razor needs soft flesh
Like a dozen red roses I
Give the gift of freedom to the
Spiders:
A rush of blood, down my
Forearm
An alizarin crimson curtain
Rising, like my soul, to
Signal the start of the end
Who will be the slave to
The spiders,
Now?
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I posted this in gp.com and it gave rise to "There was a man from Nantucket..." posts.
For me, it resumes what cannot be said with words about Schumacher, but it can be written as poetry (if you find some illogical thinking here, you got my point).
Finally, for those of you that think that Michael Schumacher is "the greatest driver in history", I would like to remind you of Ralph de Palma.
He won an estimated 2.000 races of the 2.800 races he participated... Look how carefully DaveKillens uses adjectives on his post, "relegating" Schumacher to be the most successful driver "in F1 history".
: there was one Juan Manuel Fangio once...
