Sunday Morning At the Cadillac Ranch

Sunday Morning at the Cadillac Ranch

Going to the Cadillac Ranch
counts just the same as going
to church

This fact was revealed to me
by the way the sun shone down
on the chrome cross speaker support
embedded in the center
of the rear window shelf
in a ’58 Coupe de Ville

By the fact that every single radio
in every single dashboard
of every single Cadillac
was tuned to an AM Christian station

By the spray painted jesusfishes
and the unsullied solid gold
of the most beauteous ’54
a chariot swung low and slow
waiting to roll on into
that great by and by

Sun’s rays jacobsladder through the clouds
in perfect parallel with ten vintage Cadillacs
nosed down into the North Texas plain
buried in cement on which to build a church

As our prayers get sent up along
with hydrochloroflourocarbons
of a spray can not quite empty
hissing along with the windswept choir

The Prophet Hazel Motes said:
“Nobody with a good car
needs to be justified.”
No---

nor any of this neither.

W. Joe Hoppe

Posted over on the
Austin Community College Website