Long form Poem on Sweet Billy the Life and Times

From the Jitney Jungle Meat Department of Rome Ga to Walker's Chapel and pulpits in between Sweet Billy Lived his life

    In the souls department and the "greatest business in all the world" he preached the Gospel as it came to him and had his romance with the Gospel.

     He lived among the people and coule be found On the courthouse Square in Hayesville NC in the shadow of George W. Truett, Earlier in Baltimore Tennessee outsideNewport and Steve Spurrier in the fifth grade, to Erwin where Charles High in centerfield lobbed the ball in the air while three runs scored trying to keep a check on his temper, To Gaffney where he would wander off to Lynn's Hamburgers down Wilkinsville Hwy or over to see Donnie Ray and Ulysees at Dogwood Park.

    After my mother died and he picked up with Edna, he told me first six months at his first church Bethel, Momma came to him and said Billy, If you cant do any better than that, we're gonna have a rough go of it. She helped him outline and he got better, a process as Nick Saban would say. Would give a lot of emotion to the Parables of Jesus, the Prodigal son and picked up stuff from Randall Lolley and Stewart A. Newman.

   Near the end Lolley said he was on the right side of History.

    He'd go blackberry picking with Wayne Whiteside doused and soaking in kerosene and sweat in the humidity of late June, when Whiteside would do a confession  in a variety of vulgarities that strung together like music against Political enemies and nuisances while my Dad the man of God would suggest : Wayne you can't kill him, you can't kill him when Whiteside would give voice to his darkness and the son of a bitch that was a constant bastard and naysayer

    Bobby Crocker the hope of the backfield of the Union Yellow Jackets would visit the house on his motorcycle ride from Draytonville to teach his course on the New Testament at Limestone . They would laugh like 8th grade voices at characters they remembered from Seminary, Effort Snodderly for one would get them giggling comparable to Jack Reynolds fart in the 8th grade during quiet time in Ms. Clary's class.

    When he left Gaffney a Black woman at Community Cash said : I know that man, I know that man. He was a friend to the rich and the poor , the Black and the White.

   He was born on May 3, 1922.