we hike with dogs
and learn about how the Incas built walls
around other cultures’ sacred places
so they would have to go through Inca territory
to worship their gods
and live their lives.

but when the Spanish arrived
they destroyed the Incan sacred spaces
and forced them to build Christian churches
so they would only be able to worship
the One Christian God.

I think I like one version of imperialism better

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we talk with our guide about
dogs
Inca
books
college
Peru
computers
politics
Canada
tourists

and he tells us our plan to write on a train is cliché

we laugh about it and agree