In A Minute Muffins

i.
what a minute
wait a minute
within a minute
so very much collapsing
upon so many in Haiti
on Tuesday

ii.
why did they survive
to emerge with machetes
to roam the streets with
to threaten with
to harm with

why them, alive
and so many
with only good in their hearts
dead and buried
beneath rubble

these out and about
these still around
to terrorize
to cause trouble

is nothing left
to fall upon their heads

why did the sky not fall in
upon them

these persons out
to take more lives
their aim, to maim


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
6:12 p.m. 18.01.10