from Mokujiki: Thirteen Tanka:
translated by Dale Pendell and Kazuaki Tanahashi
You
can grow hoarse
chanting Nembutsu:
Amitabha and Shakyamuni
just keep still—
(perhaps they are
taking naps).
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Pretty
sad!
all that fake bliss
I
left home with—
which the world
never falls for.
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Mokujiki’s mind
got left behind
in the world—
no way now
to ever get it back.