Leaving dusty footprints on Texan soil,
a drifting unemployed taxi driver.
Stumbling through nights of doubt,
towards seedy lighthouses that shone brightest.
He scratched her name on napkins, in margins,
on the fogged glass of Greyhounds—
rehearsing a love that would never be more
than a monologue for his mirrors.
Believing the act would be a sentence,
six shots, one ricocheted love letter,
so that on his arrival,
history might remember him
as something other than a ghost.
Here lies Jodie Catherine Lynn Fox
Slipped and fell in a patch of phlox
Hit her head on a stone
There she lay silent prone
We put her remains in a new frocked box
Written June 2, 2022
Jodie
jodie jodie jodie
Your name rhymes with toadie
its funny because you like frogs
you're very pretty and i find that pog.
When you speak it gives me butterflies
maybe its because im not circumcised.
Why do I love you so
without you i'm lost like nemo.
You're a scorpio
oh what sad woes
as im a virgo
isn't this great as our star signs align
maybe because you do design!
Well I must summarise
i don't want to be one of the other guys,
so what I'm say is will you just be mine!
Jodie is a law student born in Telford,
Living in Tilford, so she happily attends,
Lillishall Nat. Sports & Conference Centre,
And was born on the 26th July in 1993.
When her dad became ill, needed lifted,
He followed his parents into archery,
So she watched him shoot and score,
Which made her want to also join in.
Jodie was born without any fingers,
And only half a thumb on her left hand,
Her left shoulder has some problems,
And likewise her elbow, it has issues.
So she shoots with a compound arrow,
With one that’s specially adapted,
And bets other competitors she can win,
‘Cos she’s bubbly and enthusiastic.
Her biggest achievement to talk today,
Happened at Nove Mesto, Czechoslovak,
At the Para Worlds in the year of 2015,
Where she won mixed team bronze.
Rio will be her first Paralympic Games,
And it’s her goal, ambition and dream,
To become both the World Champion,
And the great Paralympic gold medalist.
Beloved of my flesh
Is my greatest creation
Unreservedly
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