I'll probably catch hell for this, but a lady named Cadillac Kate was giving a World Series Party the day Billy Buckner let the ball trickle through his legs In 1986. She was probably the most ardent female Red Sox fan I ever knew. She lived alone in a small golf course condo in south Ft Myers, and the place was packed when the game started. Several years later, I wrote this poem called Cadillac Kate.
Cadillac Kate
From behind the bed/chair, I could see the red hair
And she didn’t really look that great;
Then she opened her eyes, and to my surprise,
I was looking at Cadillac Kate!
It was back in eighty-two that Katie joined the crew
At the Sanibel Friday Night Meeting
I recall her sailing in, wearing a sly grin,
And then kissing us all in her greeting
She said, “I just got here, ‘tho my car threw a gear
And is back in a Georgia shop.”
We were all enthralled, and as I recall,
She’d left it with a Valdosta cop.
Well, she flew to Valdosta (God knows what it cost her)
And picked up her car, and her cop;
So that’s how Kate got her new name and mate,
But, now it was about her last stop.
As I reminisced, she asked to be kissed
So I came close to her cheek, and said “Kate”
I touched her bare shoulder, felt it get colder
But my kiss, alas, was too late.
At which point I looked up, and there holding a cup,
Of what looked like a warm cup of tea,
A nurse shedding a tear, saying, “excuse me, dear;
But that lady was named Anna Lee.”