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In this world

we walk on the roof of hell,

gazing at flowers.

 

 

by Kobayashi Issa

 

 

In this world

we walk on the roof of hell,

gazing at flowers.

 

* * *

 

With my father

I would watch dawn

over green fields.

 

* * *

 

That pretty girl--

munching and rustling

the wrapped-up rice cake.

 

* * *

 

His death poem:

 

A bath when you're born,

a bath when you die,

how stupid.

 

 

 

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