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In the person of a sexy lady, covered head to toe in ice,
Made every moment magic, creating rapture every day,
Because her mama was a junkie, her daddy, she couldn’t say.

Her beauty silenced the night, an illumined ebony figurine,
The loveliest, most uncapturable butterfly Motown had ever seen.
All who funked and grooved would have stopped at no sacrifice
To be able to stalk an early dawn and see morning in her eyes.

Devastating beauty inaccessible, free and foreign to their grasp
The unattainable Motown Mama was stung by a WASP
And delivered from the stage lights, severed from the crowd
She was rescued into a new life, her old life disavowed.

A Northern ghetto queen, born into the dominion of cocaine
Promoted to suburbia and now tripping on the mundane
Helpless with a husband, homeless within her home.
The spotlight is off Motown Mama and her life is done.
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Motown Mama: An American Tragedy

Contributed by Elena on Wednesday, 9th June 2004 @ 05:15:23 PM in AEST
Topic: AmericanTragedy

The Detroit scene’s hottest “make-the-groove-move” device,
In the person of a sexy lady, covered head to toe in ice,
Made every moment magic, creating rapture every day,
Because her mama was a junkie, her daddy, she couldn’t say.

Her beauty silenced the night, an illumined ebony figurine,
The loveliest, most uncapturable butterfly Motown had ever seen.
All who funked and grooved would have stopped at no sacrifice
To be able to stalk an early dawn and see morning in her eyes.

Devastating beauty inaccessible, free and foreign to their grasp
The unattainable Motown Mama was stung by a WASP
And delivered from the stage lights, severed from the crowd
She was rescued into a new life, her old life disavowed.

A Northern ghetto queen, born into the dominion of cocaine
Promoted to suburbia and now tripping on the mundane
Helpless with a husband, homeless within her home.
The spotlight is off Motown Mama and her life is done.

Copyright Â© Elena ... [ 2004-06-09 17:15:23]
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Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Wednesday, 9th June 2004 @ 07:40:25 PM AEST
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I think this one has great potential - some of the lines are great, terrific, others just kinda fall flat. I say this merelybecause I beleive so much that you could make this really good.
Nice job

Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by brigitte7735 on Wednesday, 9th June 2004 @ 09:34:28 PM AEST
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ooo ooo ooo

You are such a good writer, each one is a story so different from the rest you never repeat familiar territory and im so enchanted by you

Vanessa ( 090404 )

Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by DJ_The_Young_Grasshopper on Thursday, 10th June 2004 @ 07:36:36 AM AEST
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I'm from Detroit and I loved it (well, actually, just a bit north of there). If I had any kind of base in my voice I'd ask your permission to read this at a coffee shop. I kept hearing Barry White's voice reading it in my head:). Great poem.

Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by lovingcritters on Saturday, 12th June 2004 @ 10:52:23 PM AEST
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This was a different kind of poem for me to read, Elena.........although I did enjoy it. Helpless with a husband, homeless within her home......The spotlight is off Motown Mama and her life is done. Pretty well sums it all up Elena, I work at "Safehouse" and I see this so much.
You are very creative in your poems....this one was very unusual.......but I could relate to it very much
Love
consue

Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Monday, 14th June 2004 @ 05:12:40 AM AEST
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Insightful and imaginative. Much enjoyed reading it.

Re: Motown Mama: An American Tragedy (User Rating: 1 )
by Stitch on Monday, 14th June 2004 @ 01:52:06 PM AEST
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I thought I knew who this was until the end, but maybe I haven't followed Motown closely enough. A fascinating tale anyway.
Stitch

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