Laguna Llacasapa

(On the shores of Titicaca,
in the Puno altiplano of Peru)

I’ve been to Machu Picchu
Where the natives try to eat you1
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.

     


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  3. Gotham Asian :

    It’s Laguna LOCK-uh-SOP-uh,
    Not Laguna LAKE-uh-SAPE-uh
    (If phonetical finesse is what you lack).
    If you gringos know the lingo,
    Then it’s effortless to mingle,
    With the non-existent Sandinistian hacks.
    Read line eleven, second verse,
    To see where Brendan ‘splains the curse,
    Of compromising fact to milk a rhyme.
    Undisputed is the notion
    That the South Pacific Ocean
    Undulates more gracefully than Slime®.

    [this text is not part of the stanza — I dunno whether Slime was released before your time. It’s a Mattel toy, and exactly what it sounds like — polyurethane, glisteny, gross, something-or-other sold in a plastic garbage can. It wiggled in an imitation of organic matter that was all too close.]

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