CONTINUING - ARAKAWA

And why not now?

Let's continue.

Basho late in life wrote:

A sorrowful destiny –
Man becomes a bamboo shoot
At his inevitable end. *


Well, I beg to disagree.

This flow of transformation:
Why sorrowful?
From what perspective then need such destiny be reversed?
And to what end?

Let's continue





*
Matsuo Basho- Makoto Ueda tr. Kodansha P. 146