victoria day
From here, you realize that the kind of fireworks you buy at the variety store, they’re really not all that impressive. They float up to about 4 or 5 storeys before they pop or fizzle out. 7, if you’re lucky. I’m on the 9th floor, so I can kind of gauge how high these things are getting.
But, when you put them all together, the effect is pretty interesting. I wonder if all those people down there realize what this looks like from here. I wonder if they realize that there are hundreds of other people shooting off $4 fireworks, all looking up at their little star, hoping that theirs will break out past the canopy of roofs that sprawl out as far as the eye can see.
For a moment, I can’t tell the difference between the lights in apartment windows and the planes flying by and the flashing of turn signals and the exploding balls of phosphorus. It all kind of melts into a sparkly horizon.