Everyone Writes About Spring

everyone writes about spring
budding branches and tomato
starts, tulips breaking through from
winter's hibernation - but I

refuse to notice cherry
blossoms, or those harley riders
rumbling through warm sun, cool breeze,
surprising nice families on a

pleasant drive through springtime -
days are longer, birds are calling,
but i won't listen to them,
or to the children playing in parks

again, for the first time in
months - the grass greening from winter
snows soaking the ground in spring;
which some write about, but not me