[all the time I pray to Buddha]
By Kobayashi Issa
Translated by Robert Hass

All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.

A Note from the Editor:

Today is Bodhi Day in celebration of the Buddha's enlightenment.

[All the time I pray to Buddha] by Issa from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Copyright 1994 by Robert Hass. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Source: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa ( The Ecco Press, 1994 )

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