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in the Puno altiplano of Peru)


I’ve been to Machu Picchu

Where the natives try to eat you –

Though nowadays they treat you like a king.

But of all the esoterica

To be found in South America,

Lake Titicaca’s still my favorite thing.

I didn’t like Caracas

So I hopped on my Alpacas ,

And headed for a little place I knew:

Laguna Llacasapa,

On the shores of Titicaca,

In the Puno altiplano of Peru .


A Pilgrimage to Mecca

Or a visit to Tribeca

To Llacasapa’s beaches can’t compare,

For there’s not a holy city

That can e’er outshine the Titi-

-Caca region’s special magic, anywhere.

Not for me, the ivory towers

Of the major global powers.

I far prefer these equatorial climes.

New York has Hot Baristas ,

But Peru has Sandinistas

(Who are really Nicaraguan , but it rhymes.)


My vocabulary’s tragic;

To describe the Puno’s magic

I can never find the proper adjec-tive.

But it’s here that I’ll retire,

Whatever may transpire,

For there’s nowhere else on Earth I’d rather live.

Titicaca’s limpid water

Stretches toward Bolivia's border

Underneath an azure sky; it’s quite a view.

Here at Laguna Llacasapa

On the shores of Titicaca

In the Puno altiplano of Peru.