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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Epic Poem celebrating the Life of Stephen M. Fox on Eve of his Seventieth Year

   Born May 18, 1953 in Newport Tennessee in the Baltimore Community

   what was to become of young Steevie

    Steve Spurrier was in the third at Newport Grammar up on the Hill

   Not long after in North Carolina was Stephen
   Erwin to be exact
    While his Dad was in Seminary with Randall Lolley 
    to make fame in contest with Jesse Helms in 87

    That brought Stephen to Atlanta in 86
    Coming down the Elevator to See Bill Self and Sweet Billy
    Tom Edsall said he thought it was Moses or something.

   And then in Bama for thirty years
   where his local consultancy got the eyes of bob Dylan Son Sam
   Later Brett Morgen was on the cat walk in London with Mick himself

    At Gaffney High some of his promise was apparent,
    the rigged ballot that got him most intellectual
   though some SAT's were higher
    By sixty Stephen of that group was likely the most well read.

    And who could forget the margins of One Foot in Eden
    That attracted two Oscar nominees at one point
    Or the fried chicked with Roger Milliken Jr
    And the peach shed summer of 1970

    Ms Beam called Stephen over to the pencil sharpener early 71
    And said Paul and I think you are a find young man
   We know how Much Furman costs and how much your Daddy Makes
    So don't hesitate to call on us if needed.
   Paul knows a lot of people with the University

   And in Hayesville in 59 shortly before
   Stephen was baptized with Kim Wimpey,
   His father had a dream and came into his eldest
   Bedroom and asked, is it Stephen, is there some promise for Him.

    Well on occasion there was even if not conventional.
    He left Gaffney after 16 years with his trombone 
   in the same parade with Shatner and Strom Thurmond
   Playing Get It on.
  
   A Couple weeks after the lime Green suit and the
   Saturday Night Fever Pumps.
    Ms Sullivan Montgomery said Stephen
   You Need that Suit, you need that suit.

   One fan said Stephen was the best damned Substitute Teacher he ever had
   Said it on a Saturday night late June of 93 with not much traffic
   There were witnesses to the utterance
   \They know what they heard

  Yelled it out of a passing car, on Broad Street

   Rome Ga, Right across from Schroeders

   And subbing the fifth grade in Collinsville
   1994 after Lunch he told the unsuspecting children he
had seen five presidents in the Flesh.

   Two which a young boy of color soon to father two children out of wedlock said
  I know that fool lying now, All he Do
  Is ride up and down the highway on  his bicycle.

   So few understood this unconventional life.
   Or how he was able to feed himself all that time
   And have a roof, but he did.

   And he read, and he thought and he rode his bicycle
   Had many conversations along the way.
  Kissed several females before he threw in the towel early.
 
   As one of his Heroes Leon Said,
   Its pretty much over now Baby Blue

   But I thought I would share.
     

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