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All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
All the time I pray to Buddha
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These Kobayashi Issa haiku are like those wonderful cinematic snippets that make you hold your breath at the theater. Observation, complex emotion presented in visual images, then actually driven home to us, the observer/reader, in the sparest verbalization imaginable.