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.