Sunday 19 November 2006

The Kate Adams

The Kate Adams

Massive red paddles beat the water
Great billious smokestacks fill the sky
Nightime furnaces throw flames across
silhoutted dark waters as a

calliope whistle interrupts the chattering of
fancy dressers, cotton millionares,dapper ladies,
tricksters ,circus characters
drifting in a semi-wilderness

down the Mississippi
inspiring Delta bluesmen
to write songs
as the white money factory floats on by.

Peter Burton

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