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The lamest translation of the lamest poem ever written in the history of the world:
The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
Matsuo Basho translated (ahem) by Alan Watts
from
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
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Are there any good Haiku in translation? I've read an inordinate number of the blimmin things, since I came across them heavily recommended by JD Salinger - and never found one that rose even to the level of mediocrity as a poem.
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