We presented the following Kobayashi Issa poem to students and asked them for their reflections...
Don't Kill That Fly!
Look, don't kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you
By rubbing its hands and feet.
Kobayashi Issa
"I don't understand this poem. But when I read it I feel like it is saying something very important."
"I think it is like the lion and them mouse where the fly is saying please don't kill me because one day I could be important for you."
"This doesn't make sense. Kobayashi is putting his own feelings into the fly. Flies don't think."
"This remind me of a friend of our family's who's family doesn't have a religion so she decided to be Buddhist. She goes around all Buddha this Buddha that but then she kills mosquitos."
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