{"product_id":"2940044211735","title":"Bike Sexy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jimmy Roark is on a roll! ...takes a very serious look at bicycling, relationships and poverty. This collection is like no other you will find.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Loving Arms of Mary :\u003cbr\u003e(An Irish Bicycle Blessing)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay the road rise up to meet your wheels.\u003cbr\u003eMay a breeze be always at your back.\u003cbr\u003eMay you be well past the gates of heaven\u003cbr\u003eBefore Peter takes note of all you lack\u003cbr\u003eAnd safe within the loving arms of Mary\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Devil calls to take you back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePunk-rock Girl: (Country music lyric)\u003cbr\u003e\"This here's a country song. Pick it like it's real sad.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer Name Was Minnie Pearl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce around this ol' world, that's when I met a punk-rock girl\u003cbr\u003eWhose heart I couldn't break and whose speed I couldn't make.\u003cbr\u003eShe rode her bike without a brake! And that \"fixie\" was faster than my car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes she fell\u003cbr\u003eDown blind alleys or in dark rain\u003cbr\u003eOr riding on sidewalks\u003cbr\u003eOr both ways on one-ways clearly marked.\u003cbr\u003eShe would ride through shopping malls,\u003cbr\u003eRun right into walls,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the bruises would darken her tattoos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe aches she had within\u003cbr\u003eShe carved into her skin\u003cbr\u003eLike sin\u003cbr\u003eIndelible and not forgiven.\u003cbr\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYah, once around this ol' world,\u003cbr\u003eI fell in love with a punk-rock girl\u003cbr\u003eWho thought she was too smart\u003cbr\u003eTo have a broken heart.\u003cbr\u003eBut, we all know that ain't the way.\u003cbr\u003eThough, when it happened,\u003cbr\u003eWho the hell's to say?\u003cbr\u003e'Cept she was very small,\u003cbr\u003eNot at all too tall,\u003cbr\u003eFor a fixie,\u003cbr\u003eFixed by Daddy with training wheels,\u003cbr\u003eFor his baby, Minnie Pearl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBike Sexy is poems about women who ride bicycles. Eleven poems, eleven women, countless bicycles and the men who orbited them, all in various states of disrepair.\u003cbr\u003eStudies of women, each of its own unique sort and with its own point of view, they are the result of employ for the author as an addictions counselor for active duty soldiers and veterans of the armed forces, some months following as a companion to his dying father and, finally and most creatively, a year of belonging as a mechanic at a bicycle collective. A car, you see, is pedestrian murder, but every bicycle, an eccentric love affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She is the most eccentric person I know, and I know a lot of eccentric people.\" -One Bike Sexy woman about another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Roark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081220112624,"sku":"2940044211735","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044211735_p0.jpg?v=1763956717","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044211735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}