Kidnapped By Robert René Galván

Carlitos was taken from his mother

In a strange place called Missouri,

Though the new natives call it Mih-zoo-rah.

She was arrested at a poultry processing plant

For trying to survive, and the presiding judge,

A feckless, fleshy fellow,

Determined that she had abandoned the boy

Because she could not visit him from jail,

So he could be given to a couple

In Carthage, who renamed him Jamison,

Purged Guatemala from his memory,

So he could grow up to be

An insurance salesman,

Wear a shirt with an alligator on the tit,

Discuss his golf handicap ad nauseum

At weekend bar-b-ques, eat coleslaw

And potato salad,

Drink lite beer.