gacha gacha gacha gacha — nothing to do but cry out
gacha gacha gacha gacha naku yori hoka nai
1938–1939 · Yuda · Fūraikyo hut
Sōmokutō · Cold and Alone (Kokan)
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The katydid, called gachagacha in Japanese, cries on and on in the very voice of its name. Nothing to do but cry — that is true of the insect, and surely also of the poet, who has nothing to do but make poems.