Small green vegetables
are growing in the rain
along the burned street.


Dower, John W.The Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II. By John Dower. W.W. Norton and Company. 1999. p.418 This haiku, evoking a familiar scene in bombed-out urban areas of post-war Japan where people cultivated garden plots, was suppressed by the American censors as "criticism of the United States."