Pardes

An awesome wave of aerosol
Sweat (501 parts per million) and a billion
Open human-beings flash-fertilizing dormant deodorized seeds of bile-like
Nostalgia, rendering sour
My 14 hour
(+10 hour layover) old
Nationalism; like Socrates
Painted over with star-spangled hypocrisy
I'm neither an Indian nor a Kashmiri
But a citizen of any-meritocracy
That will have me.