The Revolver in the Hive

The Ecclesiastic Office of the Bicycle

The Ecclesiastic Office of the Bicycle Ever since I took the bicycle to the temple, wheeled it into the temple, ushered the bicycle down the aisle, past the pews frequented by rodent and fugitive, placed the bicycle at the altar, altered it with the bicycle, it has been the temple of the bicycle. And soon others began to enter the temple, to trample one another to view the bicycle, to touch the bicycle, to kneel at it and share the air with the bicycle. It became the bicycle of the poor, the bicycle of the sick, and so grew unfit to ride. There was established the office of the bicycle, and sermons were delivered on the bicycle. Even the skeptics, the zealots, the devout, those branding the bicycle false idol, those refusing to idolize it, idolized it. O bicycle arrayed with rust, calibrated for laceration ! O bicycle inherited by way of debt, stolen and recovered from the river! Bicycle I shared with the widow who cleaned fish, bicycle I lost in my youth. 9 ...