City tour, listen please

After they built the Sydney Opera house
but before the hanging gardens of Babylon
were hung
and the pyramids were just a triangular blueprint
in a sun temple filing cabinet
the Inca’s created liquid gold
to drink on their days off

Please try to keep up with the guide
you’re in Cusco now
LISTEN, very carefully
and I will TELL YOU

They used this liquid gold
to quench their thirst
as they crossed the Atlantic
on the first powered flight
and to celebrate the splitting of the atom in a small village near Calca

Because as a direct descendant
of the Inca’s
I KNOW

That grey stone slab is a crouched condor
for example
and we are stood on the tail of the Puma
that Cusco takes the shape of

I’m the one WITHOUT
the umbrella
over here
come on

The golden liquid was so popular that the Inca’s
sold it to Americans
and you can drink it now
Inca Kola
over there
in that shop
looks like piss
tastes divine