In Baghdad is a poem written by Agatha Christie. It was published in the 1973 poetry collection Poems as the second poem in the section "Places". A short poem in two stanzas, the first stanza begins with the word "GREEN" on a single line, recording a single impression probably formed when visiting a marketplace in Baghdad--that of round green melons, "gashed and split", with thousands of flies settling on them. She is repulsed by what she sees. In the next stanza, the poet muses that God probably sees the world as a round green melon. And human beings are like the flies. But unlike the poet, God is merciful....
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