SHAH JAHAN'S FLY

Here in my cabin room at the New Delhi YMCA,

Where I am neither young nor Christian,

This morning I am awakened by a pesky fly

Tickling my nose. I wonder if this fly's ancestor,

Some fly back to the nth power, waked

Important others: Nehru, maybe, lost

An hour's sleep because a fly scaled

The Everest of his nose his first morning

As Prime Minister. "Drat fly," he said and rose

To govern all of India.