Oaxaca, Mexico: An Expatriate Life

The Poetry of Rodrigo Villegas

Not Shangrila


This is not my Shangrila
By God, I'm getting older
If I leave this Shangrila
I think I will feel older
So I wait and plan

Then one day
A lama from Lama land
Did come my way
And he did say

Yes there aint no Shangrila
You hve been mistaken
And you'll grow s old as I
And be God forsaken

So enjoy, dear dear boy
The moment you've been given
Have a blast to the last
And all will be forgiven


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