59 Caddy

1959 Cadillac Convertible
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sweeping sleek from her regal medallion
gently tapered along to her sexy tail
svelte animal taming testosterone highways
on fat gleaming wide whitewall tires

a hood you could dance on all night
capped her deep-notched two-layered grille
eight classy front lights sculpted into
cool elegant cowls of glistening chrome

tailfins racing with length and flown high
couching dual pairs of red bullet taillights
rear v-grille that echoed the front
topped her bumper-ports bold twin exhausts

mirror-deep black as could ever be black
encased rolled and pleated red leather
hydromantic three-ninety V-8 laid her
twenty-one feet and her near seven beam

had accelerant power to make rockets smile
she gave effortless high-speed smooth cruising
I loved best to drive with her top buttoned down
and a curvy blonde’s hair in the breeze

I always thought she would obliterate all
those new foreign imported nuisances
ugly scurrying rodents just got in my way
though it seems I was damn surely wrong about that

but, man oh man, let me just tell you my friends
what a car! what a year! what a time!