Minerva Jones + 

I am Minerva, the village poetess, + 

Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street + 

For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk, + 

And all the more when “Butch” Weldy + 

Captured me after a brutal hunt. + 

He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; + 

And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up, + 

Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice. + 

Will someone go to the village newspaper, + 

And gather into a book the verses I wrote?⁠— + 

I thirsted so for love! + 

I hungered so for life! + 