Report on a tiniest bomb

Today in Lexington, Kentucky, USA,
on way from university to home,
I heard "I hate terrorists"
craftily hurled at me
on the pedestrian path.

To the credit of this land
I can not judge back
because I have
What statisticians dispassionately call
a sample space of one.

The truth of that data point
loomed for a while
brought home by the twice turning back
of the hurler's neck, somewhat surreptitiously,
as I stood incredulous and then
laughing.