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Virgil Killebrew is a self-proclaimed ‘Internationally Unknown Poet’. He says of himself, "I write bad poetry and sell them to good people." This just before his trademark close, "You look like a good person. Do you like good poetry or bad poetry?”   Since 1994 literally thousands of Chicagoans have been approached by the poet, Virgil Killebrew with that introduction, and needless to say, many have purchased his ‘bad’ poems. Most if not all would disagree with Killebrew’s assessment that he writes ‘bad poetry.’    In fact, unless he means bad as in, BADD!!! everyone who has ever purchased a VirgilArt Verbal Graphics poem from Killebrew has been immensely pleased with their purchases.  Killebrew’s repertoire include such titles as, “Woman Absolute,” “MotherLove,” “True Black Man,” Something is Missing,” “Crack the Magic Rock,” “Powerless and Insane,” “God Bless America,” and on and on.    Killebrew says he wrote his first poem at “10AM, May 5, 1994, eight months after the Great Chicago Fire. . .” He goes on to explain, “That fire was in my apartment on Sheridan Road, about a year after I had moved to Chicago. The heat was so intense that the ceiling fan and the Levelor Blinds in the windows melted down. . .”   That fire left Killebrew, to use his term, ‘residentially challenged’ and out of a job because all of his clothing was either burned up or destroyed by water and smoke damage. Within a short time Killebrew was out of a place to live and out of a job. He began to write and sell poetry to support himself. “I never really though of myself as a poet," he recalls,    "I really thought people were buying my writings just to help out. I didn't know what a poem was; I didn’t know what people wanted in a poem. I wrote about things that I had experienced or had thought much about. I certainly didn’t believe that the work was publishable.” People continued to buy Killebrew's poems: some even demanded to be first on his list when he had new poems to offer. “It made me feel like I was doing something that people appreciated," Killebrew stated. "That spurred me on to greater effort.” After twelve years of writing, Killebrew had accumulated and lost a portfolio of almost two-hundred poems. He had also done a stint as an independent correspondent for the Kankakee Daily News and another small newspaper in Kankakee, Il, about sixty miles south of Chicago on Highway 57. He had also written an 80,000 word short story and had started another story which he had planned as a novel. Unfortunately, all was lost in March of 2006 as Killebrew snoozed on a blue line “El” headed to Oak Park, IL. Killebrew recalls that he exited the train in a rush, leaving all of his writings on the train. It was a great let-down. A tremendous blow to this residentially challenged, internationally unknown, financially embarrassed poet. For several months after wards Killebrew could not muster the energy to pursue writing. He mourned. Veeveegee (talk) 22:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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