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Staying at an inn

by Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho

Staying at an inn
where prostitutes are also sleeping--
bush clover and the moon.




Quotes of the Day

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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    Headwaters
    by Ellen Bryant Voigt
    I made a large mistake I left my house I went into the world it was not the most perilous hostile part but I couldn’t tell among the people there