Second Year of Kansho , The: Starvation

The extreme pain of hunger and cold pressing one body,
before the eyes—hungry ghosts, before the eyes—men.
Within the burning house of the Triple Sphere, a five-foot body:
this is ten billion Mount Sumerus of suffering.
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Ikkyu Sojun
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