Punk-rock Girl: (Country music lyric) and "This here's a country song. Pick it like it's real sad. and "Her Name Was Minnie PearlOnce around this ol' world, that's when I met a punk-rock girlWhose heart I couldn't break and whose speed I couldn't make.She rode her bike without a brake! And that and "fixie and " was faster than my car.Sometimes she fellDown blind alleys or in dark rainOr riding on sidewalksOr both ways on one-ways clearly marked.She would ride through shopping malls,Run right into walls,And the bruises would darken her tattoos.The aches she had withinShe carved into her skinLike sinIndelible and not forgiven....Yah, once around this ol' world,I fell in love with a punk-rock girlWho thought she was too smartTo have a broken heart.But, we all know that ain't the way.Though, when it happened, who's to say?'Cept she was very small,Not at all too tall,For a fixie,Fixed by Daddy with training wheels,For his baby, Minnie Pearl.Bike Sexy is poems about women who ride bicycles. Eleven poems inspired by eleven women, countless bicycles and the men who orbited them, all in various states of disrepair. Studies 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. and "She is the most eccentric person I know, and I know a lot of eccentric people. and " -One Bike Sexy woman about another.