John Cage’s Mushroom Haiku… mesosticized

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                    BasHo once
                 wrote A poem:
            "Matsutake Ia
               shiranu Ko no ha no
               hebaritsUku"
                   BlytHe
                     trAnslated
                       It
                     liKe this:
     "The leaf of some Unknown tree is
    sticking on the musHroom".
                  The jApanese composer
                  TakemItsu rephrased it as
    "Mushroom does not Know that leaf is sticking on it".
                  EventUally
                     JoHn
                      CAge
                    decIded to
                     maKe his own versions
       spiced with his Unmistakable
                       Humour:
                    "ThAt that's unknown
                     brIngs mushroom and leaf together."
              But he liKed this one above all:
     "What leaf? What mUshroom?"

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