Winter is finally over... soon it will be spring.
Here is a Haiku poem to welcome the spring time from the great Haiku writer Matsuo Basho...
"初春まづ
酒に梅売る
匂ひかな"
-Basho
It roughly translates to,
"First at the start of Spring
they sell wine and plum blossoms
...I smell them."
-Basho
I love spring so much. After so many months of gruelling winter it is like being reinvigorated for the start of a new life. The human body feels almost reborn, it does. Winter is the season of cold and sadness yet spring is the season of new beginnings... and of love.
Here is a spring Haiku written by me, check it out...
"Hey, Old Man Winter?
You're on your last legs pal!
Get ready for it, Spring!"
-Me
Spring is the time for all mammals to crawl forth from their dreary dens and start gathering acorns and breathing warm scents from nature. Wow, what a time to be alive, wow!
Spring is the season of love. So many people fall in love in Spring, it's nuts.
Eat lunch, fall in love...
And at night, fall in love again..."
-Guy on the beach from Earthbound
How many times will you fall in love this spring? More than last? I don't know... all I know is I am liable to fall in love... a million times... this spring.
A general estimate.
I might fall in love all day long for all I know. I might be eating a grill cheese sandwich... and out of the blue... just fall in love. Who knows.
Wow, I don't even know when that monster called love will bite me. It's always when I least expect it to happen. I might just be walking down a dirt path... and bam! I will fall in a deep love with something. It might be a thing, or a tree... or even a hot woman... or something. Cupid might shoot an arrow inside of my heart at the pizza parlor or at the book store... who knows where love will strike next... it is so unpredictable.
The Greek peoples have three, count 'em, three words for love. That's amazing, it is. I love fallin' in love, I really do.
The Beatles said something along the lines of "all we need is love" but that's stupid and ridiculous. You can't eat love... you dingbats! Good luck making it through a few days sustaining yourself on a diet of love. No wonder most of the Beatles are deceased, jeez.
Love is just something fun that happens in the spring time, you guys, don't try to cook it or eat it, okay? Good, now let's move on.
That's the problem with Love these days, people take it too far. It's okay to be happy that winter is ending and patiently await the smell of fine wine and rich plum blossoms... but to go as far as to suggest that all a human needs to live life is love?
Pfffffft, yeah right, you hippies! Gimme a break!
Humans need A LOT of things to actually be happy. Like, the four food groups, water, money, soda pop, shelter from rain, and video games. You can't just live on love... so don't be a bozo and try to, you got that? Also if you think Love is going to solve all of your problems... you need to have a better outlook on life. Don't be a hippie... it's so mean to explain this but... everyone literally hates hippies.
Even if you're in love, big time, this spring... just express it normal ways... like write a haiku or something... don't put flowers in your hair and run around in public... you might upset someone.
I'm already falling out of love. It was fun while it lasted. I was in love with the idea of being in love as winter is concluding... but I'm over it now. It was fun while it lasted. I'm out of love, now, again.
Or am I?
Just because some hippies like John Lennon take the concept of Love too far doesn't mean that I have to be anti-love or think that love sucks. I can be in love, or fall in love, all the time, still... I think.
Maybe I'm in love right now and maybe I'm not... it's not for you to know anyhow. I might be out, smelling flowers or something, this spring... and be 100% in love... and you wouldn't even be able to decipher it from my facial expression or behaviors... or anything. I might be in love, all day long, and no will be none the wiser that I am.
I might for anyone knows, be just sitting and looking at a tree, in love, and there would be absolutely no way that anyone could know this. They would think it was just some guy sittin' around... a guy not even in love at all... but deep down, inside, my human heart... I would be very in love... with everything forever.
Good for me.
...and if, ever, the government tried to tax Love? I'd probably throw a fit and become a big revolutionary. You can't tax Love! What are you thinking!? Government!
I take it seriously. I take Love seriously. I don't like people trying to tax or outlaw Love, what-so-ever. It's not something to take too seriously but you have to take it seriously.
If John Lennon ever came back as a ghost and gave me his love-spiel... I'd probably set him straight. I'd be stern but fair with him. I'd be like, "Yo, John, like... what are you babbling about? You think you can use love to solve any problem underneath the sun... what are you possibly going on about? What is wrong with you, John Lennon? If bad guys came with machine guns and were about to shoot you... you'd try the stop the bullets with love? You are so dumb! You are sooooo dumb, John Lennon! Have fun, dude, going on about love-this and love-that while you're laying on the ground looking like a damn slice of SWISS CHEESE, you HIPPIE! YOU HIPPIE!"
Guys like me n' Matsuo Basho are IN LOVE twenty-four friggin' seven, man! That's right, but, do you see us running around proclaiming that love can destroy a tank or that love will unite all of humankind or some drivel? No! Guys like me and Basho are quietly sipping coffee and looking at how nice the sky looks... and quietly... being in love! You dummy!
Honestly, if my concept of love were ever to lock horns with John Lennon's concept of love... my concept of love... would DESTROY his concept of love.
He doesn't even know what Love is. Speaking of not knowing what love even is... Foreigner... what on earth are you talking about? You have a song that goes... and I quote...
"I want to know what love is..."
-Foreigner
Foreigner... look... maybe your teacher in school didn't do their job or something. You don't know what love even is? You can't spell it? Give me a break... you know exactly what it is... you're just playing dumb or coy or something, Foreigner. It could be you are just illiterate and cannot spell L, O, V, E... Foreigner.
Ladies, if a guy tells you something, like, "I don't even know what love even is! I need someone to show me!"... don't take his words at face value, okay? Guys who act like that are so stupid.
Actually if the government did ever implement a Love Tax... I'd be talking like Foreigner pretty quickly, I think. You want how much? Seven hundred for a Love Tax!? Uhhh... sorry mister tax collector... but I don't even know what love is!
Foreigner is from Europe, no? They probably already have a Love Tax there and Foreigner just figured out a loop-hole not to pay it, I guess. On second thought... Foreigner is actually pretty cool. The damned government can't make Foreigner pay a European Love Tax!
Because they're.... Hot blooded! Check it and see! Got a fever of a hundred and three!
Oh ya! I'm in love again! I even love John Lennon too... if he thinks love can stop wars or unite the world... whatever... let people believe whatever they want. Like it makes a difference, anyways. If you wanna believe that Love can fight a tank or a robot... then believe it... if it makes you feel good.
It's Spring! It's the time to let people be in love!
Happy Spring! To one and to all!
