The Poet, The Professor, and the Redneck

The Road--death and life, right there beneath you.

Two bikers living on the road occasionally cross paths and become unlikely friends.
One is a retired English professor haunted by an inexplicable "thing" that causes him to
feel no emotions about the violence he sometimes must commit.

The other is a happy-go-lucky, freewheeling redneck to whom there are no mysteriesin life, but who, nevertheless, carries with him a tragic memory.

Then there's the Poet ...