Cafe Chamaco

At Cafe Chamaco

hot chocalate is served

along with empanadas

filled with chicana poets

of years gone by

and years to come

you won’t mind their hair

in the empanadas

he’ll sell you 

half eaten ones

and you’ll be proud

to have them

the pumpkin ones

are carriage-shaped

Chamaco prepares them

with unwashed hands

it gives them

that extra taste

of down-home cooking

the barrio bonus

the hot chocalate

made out of instant packets

but hey

in a perfect world

this would be

Aztlan