East Los
n.— «Gunfires of east los/everberate in san fernando.» —“this is the city [reply to jmj] /z.” by Zita Maria Evensen Usenet: rec.arts.poems Oct. 18, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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