In the Ghetto

Remember

When Elvis

Was a Cholo?

And he told us

Crazy-ass stories

About robbing

Liquor stores

And making love

To beautiful

Chola women

Then he segued into

Telling us the meaning

Behind his murderous

Blue-ink prison tattoos

And how only punks

Got raped in jail

As the angel dust

Wrangled our

Teenage brains

Elvis Viramontes

Had himself one

Hell of a good time

Watching us

Shit our pants

A long time ago

Worlds away

From Graceland

David Burdett

12/20/2021