[all the time I pray to Buddha]
Translated by Robert Hass
All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.
[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)
