[even with insects]

By Kobayashi Issa
Translated By Robert Hass
Even with insects—
some can sing,
    some can’t.

Copyright Credit: [even with insects] 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)