Hara‑Kiri n°128 (Mai 1972) is a textbook example of the magazine’s early‑70s visual wordplay, where gardening advice, sexual metaphor, and social cynicism are collapsed into a single absurd image.

The cover shows a nude woman posed like a living plant, emerging from a flowerpot. A watering can pours water directly onto her body, while a sunflower replaces her face.

The headline announces, with mock instructional authority:

“Comment réussir vos semis”(“How to succeed with your seedlings”)

A speech bubble adds the fatalistic punchline:“Tous les ans, c’est la même chose !”(“Every year, it’s the same thing!”)

The joke operates on multiple levels. On the surface, it parodies gardening manuals and seasonal advice magazines. Beneath that, it mocks repetitive social rituals, sexual clichés, and the illusion of renewal — suggesting that despite annual effort and optimism, nothing really changes. The body becomes both soil and crop, turning growth itself into something mechanical and faintly ridiculous.

As with many Hara‑Kiri covers of this period, the nudity is symbolic rather than erotic, used as a visual shorthand for vulnerability, exposure, and cyclical repetition rather than seduction.