Barbara Belladonna

Meet Tonight In Dreamland

Anyone, drive me to Jersey on
   Saturday night
In Philly, bars close at
   midnight
Even the Latin Casino
My heaven in Hell
Doorman, please believe my
   my phony I.D.
I¹m drinking age in Havana

Mambo, merengue, Cha Cha Cha
Tottering on stiletto heels
My brain reels
Ouch! Frankie Lane
My cinch belt pinches

Blood Marys make me see
   ghost riders
Crack your whip, crooner
But don¹t wake me
It¹s my birthday
I¹m dancing on diamonds

I couldn't be hotter
If you lit candles on my backside
Rhythmic orgies, sweaty underarms,
   reefer smoke
The joint¹s spinning faster
Than Victrola records
    gone bezerk

I¹ve creamed my jeans
You dreamboat
Grant my wish
Or, I'll DDT
Autograph your hit album
With my Tangee lipstick.

Barbara Foster/Belladonna is an Associate Professor in the Library Department at CUNY. Over two hundred of her poems have appeared in various American and International magazines. Barbara is currently compiling an erotic memoir, Confessions of a Mature Greenwich Village Bacchante. email: B.Belladonna