Personal Fireworks

2-10-13  Sun.

      There were personal fireworks around Taichung late into the night. Leona and I made our own fireworks when she went down to 7-11 for a bottle of Spanish Merlot and Taiwan beer. We sat and munched on snacks and watched TV until late and made love before we fell asleep.

 Religious people were going to temples at midnight to be the first to stick their lit incense stick in the burner. In a nation without many marriage counselors or social workers, the temples double as clinics for the lost and depressed, but most people feel that way if they don’t have money. The first wish for most is to have lots and lots of money. Like bourgeois capitalists everywhere, they think that will solve their problem.