Fourth Street Flashback

My aunt forces me to play Mexican bingo

in my underwear

my little nuts cold against the wooden floor

embarrassed by La Dama

El borrachito makes fun of me

the mermaid's top distracts me

as I put a pinto bean

on Las Jaras

when I complain that

I don't want to play anymore

my aunt beats me

with a wire coathanger

I run up and down the gravel street

oh the joys of growing up