big enough to qualify for
Aadhaar. It had depth.
Personality.
Probably a family of frogs
and an SBI branch inside.
I reported it.
They planted a sapling
in it and next morning,
The sapling was gone.
The pothole had eaten it—
wanted roots, not reform.
It developed sentience.
They announced.
A holiday to celebrate
The same.
It was declared as a
Protected monument—
Older than British roads,
More enduring than promises.
Now tourists arrive.
Locals pray.
No one fixes it.
No one can fix it now..
Divine energy is passing
Through it someone said.
"Test your spines here
Like a prayer"
"Take a hard fall here
If you want an awakening"
And whoever falls is an
Offering now.
Two bulls, a few scooters.
and a manifesto has
Drowned so far.
A poet too has tripped in
and found a deeper metaphor.
Now he lectures at JNU
on the "existential sinkholes
of Indian democracy."
The Chinese are
Trying are trying to
Reach out for research
Collaboration but
Even NASA has been
Put on a wait.
"The Inter-planetary Society
For Theosophical Parody"
Has made it somehow.
Right now, stuck in traffic.
The debate on who's
Gonna take the credit
Has to be settled first.
The contractor and
MLAs have fought over
It already.
Many national parties
And even the PM is
Fighting for the same.
But everyone knows it.
Everyone knows,
The credit has to go
To Nehru.