Long Cadillacs Poems

The season, spring year 2031. 
One year went by and 
Delilah was 4 months pregnant 
When Molly Was 6 months 
pregnant. Other Then that, the
passed months were
Unremarkable. The ages of 
Damian's children and their 
Mother's...

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Time To Cook the Rolls 

“Honey, turn on the oven to 350; the movie is starting!”

Soupy Sales is kicking back with June Taylor at Studio 50.
He is flirting with her leggy dancers as they feed...

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When Marcelino Manuel da Graca aka Sweet Daddy Grace came to town.
 At an early age, I must admit that I was excited along with the majority of the Black community of the South East...

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AntiPoem 2

You know only one thing and that is:
Dying is not on the agenda.

Let us march now inside St. Mary’s,
March reverently through these green repentant doors,
These holy portals to grace and absolution,
Into a stain-glassed sanctuary...

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As the sun sets
and the twilight comes out,
as the birds and squrriels are no where in sight.

As the whores and pimps sit on street corners,
waiting for street lights to turn from green to red.
As cadillacs...

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"Dreamy Cadillacs"....COLOURFICATION


Decided one Sunday afternoon to indulge in something I love!
Being "Olde School" with an "e" and a Cadillac classic car buff.
I went to this show and was blown away by all the "Cads" I...

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As I took my initial sip of beer
in that dusky bar on that rainy 
night in Amsterdam,
I forgot about Van Gogh 
and the canals and tulips, 
and was right back in Smithtown.

The first beer I...

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Semifinals won by each
The day of the finals is said
Boasting begins by the two groups 
Or supporters Two weeks to the march
Hummers for mansions
Cadillacs for damsels
One billion for one billion
Any price for any price
The day...

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There were warning signs proclaiming "DANGEROUS CURVE AHEAD!"
But no one paid much attention to them as on they recklessly sped!
On that treacherous stretch was a bend known as "Dead Man's Curve,"
Where many souls began their...

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Herd-mongers, schoolmarms and glorious twats
Piloting leased arks through drenched parking lots
Cadillacs cleansed of a fine week’s debris
Just in time for the polish of sanctimony

A river of swine, like the Jordan, it crosses
Over deserts of disheartened...

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The story became too heavy 
I did went on to empty it
But I was timid 
That the outcome could be negative
Which could undermine my dignity

A few days down the line 
I did shake heaven and...

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I

Tis the season -
of loss or of change?
I was told both.
But first I drove from home to sleepless couches.
From quiet to frightening neighbors.
I drove on a warm December’s sheet of ice
and passed mile after mile...

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I walked down jazz alleys with stingy cigarettes
and a head filled with typewriter dreams,
silently praying to sidewalk gods
for the inhaling of coconut rum, 
Chicago and Havana,
minds heavy with thoughts of steel and uranium
in the years...

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You've been dead for the same amount of time that you lived, forty-two years.
You were loved and your death devastated each and every one of your peers.
You didn't perform in all fifty states, one state...

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It's going to be another hot Amarillo day, but as I emerge from my car, the morning is still only warm with a gentle breeze blowing.  I quickly cross the frontage road and head...

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i never dreamed i would miss
my first haven.
the dusty little room
filled with a misty smell.
windows covered with 
dusty soot, outdoors a
little hell.

the abandon flats with shadowy
visitors at night. the empty liquor bottles
left covering the street.
it...

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They set up tents by their big ol' cadillacs
Up the road a-piece from our little house
In a vacant lot where nothing but weeds grew.
Momma said, "Don't you go up there and stare
At them.  They...

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I Can’t Believe I Keep Saying Stuff Like That

By Elton Camp

I won’t have any trouble relating to the regular Joe
After all, I only have two hundred fifty million or so

Among the filthy rich, I am...

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He broke into music
When he was just a kid
They sentenced him to trouble
For dancing like he did

How was he supposed to know
He'd sing Jailhouse Rock
When the boy hit the 50's
He stopped the clock

He rolled into...

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Beautiful curls flowing down
Large sparkling eyes, enticing
Life just starting recieved a death sentence
Though death has been around every corner since seventeen
She keeps on the dark, wide path
Shady deals and lies
Doesn't know the truth
Old cadillacs, old...

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Dat gal done gone an lef me? '?lone
went t'town wit huh red shoes on.
Hi' ole heels,dress on tight
Powda and paint,sum'in ain't right


They's som kine of problum I caint explain
I believes sum main done turnt her...

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Single mothers and drug dealers
are some of the inhabitants
in this habitat,
permed pimps and
lizard green cadillacs.
Headless fiends
so high,
off drugs no lie,
they get served by
dreds with jeans.
The Korean man at the market
selling cokes in a can, spam,
and...

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Sunlight paints your blush with ruby highlights,
inking you in stunning cinibar tints.
And romantic thoughts glow in your aura,
inspiring both artists and troubadours.

With wafts of romantic inclinations,
your fragrant aroma summons a kiss.
And oft fills sultry souls...

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© Ben Burton 2-8-2015

When sunrise broke, expected clouds
Were nowhere to be seen
Yet, rain was falling in the crowd
Halfway to Beale Street

Across the well-kept, mourning lawn
Inside the noted gates
A million tears for every song
Sprang forth to...

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SUPERIOR – not the lake

To me there are no persons drearier
Than those who think themselves superior,
Think everything in life that they do
Is a little, no, MUCH better than you (do)

She didn’t come right out and...

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