seeing Machu Picchu
after three days walking in the Andes
was awe-inspiring at the time
but that was then
in other words
nothing now
and that's OK
now I am typing about this series of thoughts
as they emerge unknown to me
except the first
which got me typing
and that is better than Machu Picchu
which doesn't exist in reality
my reality
which is only now
and only here
here is a living room
not even all of it
as I have my back to what I can imagine
but don't know for certain
is the rest of my living room
and if I turn my head for a moment
to check what's behind me
I lose the part of the living room
I was once facing
It will have disappeared
just like Machu Picchu did
the moment I left it in 1986.
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