Firework Kids

Mid- October and fireworks howl, exploding rainbows in the sky randomly appearing alongside the laughs and screams of children and young adults, just trying to see something beautiful.

They empty their pockets on the counter and are pointed to the loudest and cheapest, stuffing them in bags with lighters and cigarettes they’re running on up and away, little kings of the world.
Sometimes they get hurt, blow off limbs and faces or set fire to buildings or animals but mostly not, mostly they just want to see and create something they usually don’t, to take part in the making of a beautiful thing, a rain of fire and colour.

It is an annoyance to the parents and it’s dangerous and we curse as do the politicians, but if I had a choice of dong fuck all, but watching television, repetitively attend a school or mindlessly consume, I’d be out with the firework kids making beauty boom.