The Queen of Corona

Mama Pajama was just jealous,

when she tried to tell us,

to stay away from Rosie,

the Queen of Corona.

Elementary 69 is closed.

The schoolyard is hosed

by the needles, the needless,

the needled - like Julio

who never got out the Boro

to the right side of the tracks

on the arms of the coatless.

The Queen of Corona

lost her crowns

after twenty years

of goin’ down.

Mama Pajama is Grandma Moses

with better clothes and botox.

Uncle Remus is her backdoor-man,

brings the rent and the boogie

after closing the church.

See me and Julio,

look down on the schoolyard

from the fire escape

and the parapets.