My thoughts are is it’s some type of koan rather than something to be taken literal.
That’s the description I was looking for. Thanks. I knew it could not have been a Haiku. I make jokes about her, but I have to admire Yoko’s tenacity. At the age of 81, she presents herself as someone who long ago grabbed onto the essence of life and shows no sign of easing her grip. She comes from a family already quite wealthy before she met John. Here is another aspect to her life not terribly well known;
Yasuda Zenjiro was the great grandfather of Yoko Ono. When John Lennon saw Yasuda’s picture, he said; “That’s me in a former life”. Yoko said,’Don’t say that... he was assassinated!”
Although Yasuda Zenjiro lived to be 83, he didn’t die of natural causes. He was the son of a poor samurai, but grew a mind for business and became very wealthy by 1876.
In 1880, he set up the Yasuda Bank, which is today known as the Misuho Financial Group. In 1921 he was assassinated because he refused to make a financial donation to an ultra-nationalist.
How many people do you know who can say they are a decendant of a samurai warrior? Not many, I suspect.