Edgar Lee Masters - Minerva Jones lyrics

I AM Minerva, the village poetess, Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, co*k-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 d**h, growing numb from the feet up, Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice. Will some one go to the village newspaper, And gather into a book the verses I wrote?— I thirsted so for love I hungered so for life!