Kakoli-couplet

 "What is Krishnan in the end? 
Just a mushroom, just a friend." 

                                          -  Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy"

Rēs ipsa

Would you have noticed
this haiku if it had punched
you square on the nose?

 
NB: This seemed too nice to let languish at the bottom of a trackday equipment checklist.