CORRECTLY

CORRECTLY

You are better
than those other people

they would have
harvested the hair,
collected the skin

I stopped to clear
my lungs of smoke
and ash
   for a moment

not on
   an industrial scale, you say,

yes, I will give
you that,
    it is an essential difference

I step away
      pick up a stone
scratch out a haiku on
the back of it
     with a bomb fragment

that is not
    a haiku, you tell me,
point out correctly

that five seven five pattern
I see it nowhere

yes, my friend,
I stand corrected, you
speak correctly

but there again
         from my perspective
there is
something skewed
in everything you tell me

I wonder
      if you are

perhaps
     not human, that
basic core

self-
          mutilated

ordained pattern
expelled