Amanda Strayhorn, Reverend’s Wife

           Till I come, give attention to reading,

           to exhortation, to doctrine

           —2 Timothy 4:13

Whilom he was Reverend Strayhan for years
then somewhere around exactly the time of the disobedience
and divorce it started the great shift to Strayhorn
which took approximately three years more or less
to become the final authorized version when even
the bank, Post Office, Ministerial Alliance, his congregation,
and the football boosters’ club recognized it as official