The Uni-Party Mode of Defense Against the Spread of the Epidemic

Basing the decisions of defense against the spread of MERS-CoV on the party preferences, that, is what we get, when the people, voted, for the dictator to take the office of the president here, and now, people are, going to DIE for it, while the president, along with all other of her party favorites, stayed, untouched…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The local cases of the outbreaks of MERS-CoV hiked up suddenly after the Memorial Day holidays, the president held a strategic meeting on the preventions of the spread of MERS-CoV, and decided that “the goals for the severe cases, to reduce the number of confirmed contractions, and managing effectively those who are asymptomatic or lightly symptomatic”.  She said, the goal is no “clearing the cases to none”, nor is it to “coexist with the virus”, but a “New Taiwan Mode” or tailoring the economy of the country, and getting the people’s lives back to normal.  And yet, the day that followed her speech, there was a sharp rise in number of confirmed cases of contraction, and Chen admitted truthfully, “We will NEVER get the confirmed contraction cases down to nil, and we are walking towards ‘coexisting with the virus best as we can’”, which is a total SLAP against the “new Taiwanese Mode”.

I don’t have any comment toward the strategies of defense against the spread of MERS-CoV, but I have a ton of displease toward Tsai’s mode of coming up with the policies.

the video of the news channel, on how Tsai held the forums on defense, without the mayors of both Hsinbei and Taipei cities, off of Youtube

總統防疫會議雙北市長未獲邀 侯友宜緩頰 – YouTube

(and yes, the link works!)

The rosters of that meeting, had only THREE experts of prevention of disease transmission, including the head of the CDC, Chen, and the nonexperts who were there included the vice president, Lai, the former vice president, Chen, the head of state, Su, and mayors of Taoyuan, Cheng, and Kaohsiung, Chen.  This list, clearly not admitted the mayors of Taipei, Ke and of Hsinbei, Hou intentionally, meaning, that what is meant by the “new Taiwanese mode” is the “DDP’s singular defense against the spread of MERS-CoV.”

It’s a good thing, that the party in power was willing to shoulder ALL the responsibilities of the policies regarding the defenses against the spread of MERS-CoV, but, singling out the mayors of the two MOST populated, most complicated cases of confirmed contractions, keeping them out of the policy discussion forums of the defenses against the spread of MERS-CoV, clearly, it’s because of both of these mayors, parties, and, if there’s the reductions of effect of defense against the spread of MERS-CoV due to the party politics, the lives of the people, being threatened, weighs more heavily than the party in power taking responsibilities for the decisions of the policies.

The histories showed what happened when the country gets split, under two powers fighting for office.

Comparing to today, Tsai’s policies, are all centered around what’s benefiting the DDP most, she’d fought the other political parties like they were her archnemesis.  And, if there’s a man who’s, excellent at what he does, for the good of the entire country, for the people, maybe, this man will still get, ostracized by the 1450 net armies of the DDP then.

And so, this is how the political party dictates everything here, not based off of the wills of the people, not based off of the welfare of we the people, the president and her party only cared about their own kind, those members of her party, and, she’d, cast everyone who’s not on her side, out of the pictures, and, we’d entered, into, the era of, being ruled by, tyranny here.

We are now, a people, enslaved here, or maybe, we’d long become, it’s just, that most of us are still, in that state of, comatose, hadn’t waken up yet…

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A “Not-a-Big-Deal” Deed

A helping hand from a complete stranger that noted your need, translated…

I’d usually ridden my scooter out, because it’s convenient, and saves me the time, but, it’s, “always easier to ride out, and hard to find that parking spot”, and I know I’m, stating this, for all who lives in Taipei, the scooter-commuters.

Early that morn, because it’s still early, there are, a lot of parking spots, and I’d gotten in easily; and yet, as I went to get my scooter out in the afternoon, the scooters are jam packed into the parking spaces, handle-to-handle, and my scooter was like that tiny one, stuck, between, two motorcycles.

Didn’t know how to begin to get my scooter out, I’d looked dumbfounded at my ride for a while, and in the end, I’d, tipped up my toes, used all my might, lifted up the back of the scooter parked to my right, hoping to move it a little bit.  But unfortunately, being petite as I, it’d not, budged.

As I’d, circled around the scooter, hopeless in my feat, then, a scooter parked next to me, a younger gentleman in a black helmet that covered up his face got off, with his large hand, and, scuttled to the left, then to the right, used all his might, worked up a sweat, and finally, he was, able to, help me get my scooter out from between the larger motorcycles.

I’d bowed toward him to say thank you, he’d rubbed his hand, “it’s not big deal!” then, rode off.

Such a “no big deal” to him it was!  He’d, stated it so lightly, but, I’d, carried his act of kindness to heart, and, how much focus, how much strengths he’d used, to help me move my scooter out, is still, clear in my mind.

And so, this, is receiving help from an unknown stranger, the man saw you in need, and, given you the assistance you’d needed, and to him, it may have been no big deal, but to you, it was, a huge deal, and that still just showed, no matter how tiny the act you’d performed, to help someone out, to the individual receiving the assistance from you, it’s, something major, and, the one helped will remember the acts of kindness you’d shown them for the rest of their lives, even if you’d already, forgotten.

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The C.D.C. Got Chased by the Virus, Again, Using the Policies the Way Frogs are Cooked in Warm Water

There’s, a pattern to be, detected in this!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The cases outbreaks grew triple fold in only one week, from a little over a hundred cases, to more than three hundred, and it’s estimated, that in a month or two, the number of contractions will reach its, all-time, high, we’re racing against time, battling the virus, and yet, the CDC must wait until the fires are at our doors, to finally state to the public, “it’s not possible at all, to reduce the number of contractions down to nil”, the measures of “coexisting with the virus”, the guidelines for quarantining at home for the mild and asymptomatic are only getting set up next week, and, then, the trial terms by the separate cities and counties of the country.

As the epidemic hit us locally last May and June, there’s the “paper work playing catch up with the virus”, “getting chased by the virus” and the result of that was the beds in the E.R.s are overpopulated, those who are dying at their homes, the uncounted numbers of deaths, must we, go through all of that again this time around?

Due to the increased number of confirms cases internationally, the various countries had already set up the rules for “the lightly symptomatic care at home guidelines”, countries like Great Britain already did away with the quarantine phases, the U.S, with five days of at-home quarantine, seven days in South Korean, three days in Singapore, all the countries in the world had seen how powerful the Omicron strain is, but, our country is still, immersed in the delusions of being the “role model” of defense against MERS-CoV, using the warm water, to broil up the frogs here.

Recalling how back on January third, Taiwan welcomed its very first Omicron case, back then, the clusters of infections occurred in a quarantine hotel, which showed the aerial transmission ability of the Omicron strain, the cases can no longer be identified as locally or externally anymore.  As the clusters of the international airports, Wang’s Steaks, it’d shown, how quickly the virus can be transmitted, as people ate out, and, although the CDC kept proving its abilities to quickly get these cases in check, but it still hadn’t, learned the lessons, of prevention is better than treatment.

Starting in April, the quarantine period had been shortened to just ten days, and, in a few short days, the local cases grew to over three hundred in these past few days, and the CDC now only started, to set up the rules of those with the milder symptoms for the individuals to quarantine at home, even the cities of Hsinbei, and Taipei all got ahead of the CDC many a time already.

The memories of being outstanding in the measures of preventing the spread of MERS-CoV was from the year before last, and if the CDC still doesn’t catch itself up, we can’t even catch up to the taillights of the Omicron chains, and the people here, can’t deal with the failures of the delays, the losses of, lives either.

And so, the CDC, with its head up its ASS, still screwed us all, because it doesn’t want to piss the people off (so it’d rather, that people lose their lives?), not setting up the tougher rules of quarantine and the incubation period of the Omicron strain, is no longer just fourteen days, HECK, the quarantine period of our dogs for rabies is twenty-one days, and the government still doesn’t take this quickly transmitting mutated strain seriously enough, and we the people, are all going to, D-I-E (or maybe not all of us, the few of us, with the BEST DNAs will survive, I’m sure of it!) because of the government’s incompetence.

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Taiwan is NOTHING Like Ukraine

If China were to, attack, would the U.S. come to the aid of this country or not, that, is the, million dollar, question here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Is Taiwan like Ukraine or not?  The votes are three to one, those who don’t believe that Taiwan’s fate will be similar to that of Ukraine’s.  The votes of three, are not simple one bit, they’re the official statements of China, Taiwan, and the U.S., they all declared, that Taiwan is NOTHING like Ukraine!  And the three sides, actually, came together, agreed on this one issue, for the, very first time, a miracle.  Although, this was pure, accidental, we should thank Putin for this.

And the one solitary vote was from Trump.  As soon as the war occurred between Russia and Ukraine, Trump’s loud mouth predicted that Taiwan will be next, that China will soon invade Taiwan.  There are many fans, followers of Trump, and as the master spoke, how can the slaves, not bow down in agreement?  The president, Tsai came to put the fires out, said, that Taiwan and Ukraine, are nothing alike.

yeah, uh…

photo from online

Although this isn’t popular with the crowds, but, every other country found the resonance.  The head of foreign affairs of China, Wang in the press conferences told: Taiwan and Ukraine can’t be compared; the American head of Department of Defense, Austin added on lately, that it’s improper, for the comparisons of Taiwan and Ukraine to be, made, that the two are completely, unidentical, in every single form.

“Taiwan is nothing like Ukraine”, case closed.  But, examine this closer, the essences were, nearly, identical.  Tsai stated that we are unidentical to Ukraine, because we have the Taiwanese Strait, and the TMSC to protect us, that nobody dares touch us; and, Austin’s claims, are equally, interesting, based off of the entire speech he’d made, he’d stated, that the American intervention by putting troops in Ukraine can stop Putin from thinking of invasion, but, setting the troop in Taiwan, may cause China to attack sooner.

It does NOT matter how similar or different Taiwan and Ukraine are, one thing that will, kill us, is that Taiwan, and Ukraine treated China and Russia as air, just kept pushing them, again, again, and again.  And now, what Taiwan feared the most, is that the U.S., won’t come to our, rescues, like how U.S. took a laisse-faire approach to Ukraine.

And so, this is if China hits us, we will, more than, likely, get taken over, like Ukraine had, by Russia, and there’s nothing people here, in Taiwan can do, because the government still blabs on, nonstop, picking at China, and one day, when China blows up, it’s the people who will, have to pay, like the people of Ukraine had already, had the tastes of the war with Russia, and, dreaming of how the western countries are going to come and give us aid, yeah, that’s, delusional all right!

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As the Cases of Confirmed Contractions Increased, the Government Still Zoomed in on the Party Politics, What is it Thinking?

As the priorities of party preferences, outweighs, the people’s lives here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The increases of the confirmed contractions of MERS-CoV came by the hundreds of late, mostly were the “panning out” cases, hard to keep track of the whereabouts of the individuals.  From this, the prophecies of the “post-Memorial Day full-blown epidemic” is coming true now; Chen admitted to it, that in fifteen days, the epidemic will be at an all-time high.  The president on her first day of work at the office, hosted the defense against the spread of MERS-CoV meetings herself, met up with the mayors of the cities in the country, and yet, there were only Taoyuan and Kaohsiung invited, the most populated cities of Taipei and Hsinbei Cities were, cast out.  The measures of defenses against the spread of MERS-CoV is relating to the welfare of all the people in Taiwan, yet, Tsai showed favoritism to the leaders of the cities of her own party.  How can we the people, who are, watching, take all of this in?

Examining how the government’s responses of late, there’d been, a ton of, made-up proper nouns, and the mottos, but, the society in Taiwan, along with the heads of the local governments, couldn’t understand the purpose of the central government’s, actions.  Head of state, Su’s “new Taiwanese mode”, is huffle and puff; Tsai’s “reducing the impacts of the outbreaks as the goals”, only touched the surfaces, there’s no practical rules that’s given to the heads of the cities to follow.  As for Chen being asked, “are we going to clear the cases” or to “coexist with the virus”? he can only respond with, “we are trying to help the people maintain the functions of their lives in the most fundamental forms”, and, delegating the responsibilities, back to the people.  In actuality, there are now, 128 school which had pulled the in-class sessions, is this, not against, “the norms of our lives”?

Chen claimed, once the cases of confirmed contraction daily is up to 1,500 per day, then, the quarantine at home for the asymptomatic, and those who are showing the minor signs will be set up.  This served two purposes: reducing the burdens of the hospitals, secondly, those who are asymptomatic, or with minor symptoms, have no need for the hospital treatment sessions, it’s absolutely, necessary.  The problem being, who is to decide, if the citizens are asymptomatic, because they’re originally, strong in their immune systems, or that they’re, on their way to having the worsened symptoms, transitioning?  If in the at-home quarantine periods, the conditions worsens, how does the CDC handle it?  The mayor of Hsinbei City, Hou posed the “at-home care” suggestion, and it’s, more complete.  But we can’t, leave those with minor symptoms lying around at home, there’s the need to have the video chats or the distant medical treatment measures for them to get the professional advices on their conditions, to have the best effect of care provided to them.

And, not only that, the CDC doesn’t have the capacity to conduct all the scans needed, and there’s this depletion of the supplies of the treatment medications too, the CDC needs to refuel quickly.  Otherwise, once the numbers of confirmed cases hikes up, it wouldn’t be able to handle the huge capacities.  Currently, there’s only 16,000 doses of the moderate to severe treatment medications of Remdesivir, which needed to be, refueled.  Especially, for the less severe cases of treatment of Paxlovid, there are only a little over 4,000 doses, which will be gone soon, the Paxolvid is an orally administered medication, better for those who are in the at-home quarantines, this medication can reduce the rate of hospitalization, of death by eighty-eight percent; the U.S. had, successfully kept the Omicron mutation in check with this brand of medication.  And currently, Taiwan only has four thousand doses stored up, clearly, this is, nowhere NEAR enough.

As the head of the CDC, if Chen shows preferences toward the party affiliation cities, he can’t have a good performance, trying to tackle this, sly virus.  And, if the government led by Tsai can’t even win the people’s trust, then how can the DDP win the elections?

And so, this, is how the government led by the DDP is still, screwing us all over, by showing favoritism toward those counties and cities that are led by their own, and that’s just it, we’re all, SCREWED, because the government here does NOT give a flying #$%@ (maxed out!) about WE the people, it only cared about the party, and so, those of us who aren’t favored by them (the supporters of KMT, other parties, and those of us who are, neutral) are all going to get killed off by the virus!

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Ventilation

The complete strangers, related by blood, living, underneath, that same, roof here!  Translated…

That place called “home”, with the windows and doors getting opened up and closed repeatedly, biologically, it’d, kept the place ventilated, but, the corners inside the minds, something was, amiss—the warmth of the harmony of the air, taken away, with the coldness that, took over.

The epidemic had, kicked Taiwan’s line of defenses down, but it’d, made the homes, closed tighter, the windows, the doors too.

I’d, stared at the blank in my schedule, like the fast car, with the brakes slammed down so suddenly, and I’d felt, a little dizzy by it.  Tried to adjust myself to this sense of, dis-comfort here, sighed, left my own room, walked, into, the living room.

illustration from UDN.com

strangers that I live with…

My mother was, flipping through the finance magazines on the supper table, while my father was sitting opposite of her, listening to the English broadcasting on the radio, with that scent of foreignness in the air, but that’s, about, it.  I walked toward that autumn orange couch, sat down by the far corner, their eyes shifted toward me, we’d greeted one another, then, the sounds of voices speaking in foreign tongues again.  I’d started, staring around me, and zoomed in on my parents, I’d, secretly watched them, stared, and yet, as I looked on them, that weird feeling came, how did these two strange creatures, came, about?

When did mom start reading this kind of magazines?  When did ad start learning English?  When did he get those new glasses?  Where did mom get her top?  The countless questions came to mind, and yet, I can’t answer a single one of them.

From before, I’d, prided myself for being, observant, and yet, I’d, found myself, for the very first time, in this, current, identity, crisis, and the people are those whom I live with, my families!  I’d felt numb in the skulls then, and the cold sweat started rolling down inside my heart.  I knew, that I knew something of them, it’s just, that those, unimportant details of their lives, got, cast to the back, of my mind is all.

The mist of the mysteriousness of memories, saw I couldn’t defy it, it’d, started, showing itself off in front of me.  Oh, how I’d, longed to, tear it apart, to see what’s in it.  And finally, I’d, admitted defeat, and, left in my own, anxiousness.

The days that followed, I’d, repeated these, same, behaviors, and yet, at that final standoff, I’d always, run away from the fights.  The hatred grew inside of me—the house full of gloom I’d felt, can be, dissipated, because there’s no, ventilation at my home.

A week later, I’d finally inquired my parents, in an, unsettled voice, “What are you doing?”, and, for that moment in time, I saw, the sparks, came out from their, eyes.  And, that very moment, without any words of exchange, I’d, come to, understand—that I’d, chosen to, abandon this world, that’s why, this world had, distanced itself, from me.

Opening up those closed tightly doors and windows, this time, I no longer, worried, that the connections I’d found back, will vanish with the air that flowed in, because I’d, already, found a way, to, preserve it.

And so, this, is, you, realizing, how little you knew about your own loved ones, and, it scared you, because, despite how you are related to them, you don’t know anything about them, their likes, their dislikes, their hobbies, and now, you can do something, to change that, this is the opportunity that presented itself to you, by the outbreaks, because all of you are, locked in, in that, same location.

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Loving You, a Child Who’s, Not, Mine…

I thought it was, impossible, loving you, a child who’s, not, mine, but I do, love you, oh so, very much…

When he brought you home, you were wrapped up inside, that warm blanket, and I’d, become your mother right then and there, and, it’d not mattered to me, where you came from, you were, mine for certain.

And, I watched you grow up, get into, your, equal share of troubles, and, when it came time for me, to pick up after your messes, yeah, I’d, complained, but, I remembered, that loving you, a child who’s, not, mine, was the choice I’d decided on, and, all the annoyances, went, away.

Loving you, a child who’s, not, mine, never thought I was, capable, of such, selfless kind of love, placing you before me, never thought I could, love someone so very much, since my own died.

But I love you, child, who’s, not mine, oh so dearly, so very, much, and I always will!

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Basing the Policies of Tackling the Outbreaks on Party Affiliations Instead of What’s Sound, Turning Taipei & Hsinbei Cities into, Outsiders

The greens versus the blues in defense against the spread of MERS-CoV, with NO consensus reached here, and the country is still headed, towards H-E-L-L here!  Allowing the party politics, to ruin the people’s lives here, as the party politics are the primary dictations of the rules and regulations of the defenses against the outbreaks of MERS-CoV here, see how party politics ruins a country now???  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

After the head of state, Su called out the “New Mode of Defense Against MERS-CoV in Taiwan”, the Tsai government became even more ambiguous on whether or not we are to “coexist” with the virus, or to clear the cases of infections to none, until the local cases of confirmed contractions went past hundreds range, Tsai finally hosted the defense against MERS-CoV tactic forum, spreading herself out among Lai, her vice president, Chen, and Chen, the head of Department of Health Sanitation Welfares, like they were candidates, competing for a position in the election, while the cities hit the hardest, Taipei and Hsinbei, the mayors were, kept out, it’s a wonder the people made fun of the meeting, was it to discuss the matters of the epidemic, or is it, to discuss the election? 

It’d been over two years since the start of the outbreaks, the outside world had been questioning why Tsai had “gone into hiding”.  As the local epidemic started last year, Tsai also, backed herself behind the frontlines then, back then, the mayor of Taipei, Ke called out, “hundreds are dead from the outbreaks, and we still don’t see the president making her appearance, but soon as Medigenvac prices dropped, she’d, made her, appearances.”  During the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Tsai went to see the operations of the air force base in Hsinchu, the agricultural fair, the pets outing and forums, and finally yesterday, she’d posted on her FB page what was discussed in the meeting on the defenses against the epidemic, but the list of attendees are, stunning to us.

She’d specifically noted to have the mayor of Taoyuan, Cheng, the mayor of Kaohsiung, Chen present, because they are “keeping guard over the borders of Taiwan”.  While the borders are the responsibilities of the central government, and looking now at the hardest hit northern cities of Taipei, Hsinbei City, and Keelung, especially the mayor of Hsinbei City, Hou who’d started calling out the at-home treatment plans for the less severe cases, the mayor of Taipei, who’d called to the central government to switch to the mode of coexisting with the virus, aren’t on the list.

Started back on the first of April, the cases increased by the hundreds each and every day, during this time, Su and Chen kept making up new terms, from the “new Taiwanese mode” to “Close to Normal Way of Life in Measures of Preventing the Spread of MERS-CoV”, they’d been, too, ambiguous on what these entailed.  Looking at other countries, toward this plague of the century, the presidents, the leaders of other countries stood on the frontlines, to announce their plans of how to reduce the impacts of the epidemic.

At the start of the outbreaks, surely, Taiwan had, turned in, a pretty grade sheet, other than the citizens’ being highly compliant to the rules of the government, it’s also due to closing the borders, and, keeping the country out of the international forums.  The government led by Tsai knew well, that we the people are already, burned out from working too hard to prevent the spread, and the economy can’t last much longer either.  The problem being, countries including Thailand, New Zealand, etc., etc., etc., had already set up the written rules on how to “coexist with the virus” with the precise step-by-step actions.  For the past two years, the Tsai government had oversold on the myth of “Zero confirmed diagnoses”, and now, faced to the loosening of the restrictions, it’d become too hard for her to manage, and, she’d become even more hesitant, because of the end-of-year election that’s coming up, and can only, come up with, the ambiguous made-up phrases, to fool the people.

The presidential level of discussion forum on how to tackle the matters of defenses against MERS-CoV, reduced to the DDP party, and the DDP local leaders, it’s expected, how Tsai’s policies of defenses against MERS-CoV is ambiguous, as she’d only considered the “colors”.

And so, this is still, bullshit, what this government is currently doing, the heads of state, the president, the head of legislature, and all those higher up officials, are ruled by their party preferences, the DDP, and they’d become, deaf to the ideas (even if they are actually valid) of the opposing party members, and the country will be, ruined, and we the people still don’t got a single clue here, by the way, I’m not, a part of this, “collective we” that I’m speaking about here.

I don’t have any party affiliations, I don’t prefer any party to rule, I am still, just, sitting on the fences here, watching that god damn ball getting tossed, from this side, to that, back to this, then to that, then to this……

Yeah, and it’s getting boring from my perspective here!

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The Exchanges of Kindness, from a Bystander’s Perspective

Watching kindness, as it took shape, the exchanges of two complete strangers from a train, translated…

“I’m sorry, this is my seat, but it’s fine, I like the window seats, I will trade seats with you”, there’s that sunshine shining through his smiles, that uncle had the innocence of a child.

The settled in the aisle woman who was sliding on her cell phone, noted something, was on her way to get up, then, settled back down by his gentleman nature.

The shot conversation that came on February 28th, on the northbound high-speed rail, the two only exchanged words for no more than three short seconds.  Then the train started moving, and everything fell, silent then.

I was seated to the left back side to them, and was moved by what I saw.  Because this unplanned, unexpected kindness of exchange between people, it wasn’t set up like in the movies, planned.  The sense of kindness that came from within, that unaffected, unannounced, not only does it calm oneself, but also, made others around them feel settled in, so rare in encounter, surely, they are people with the experiences, the morale, and the, stories too.

I straighten up my back, felt compelled to tell the man thank you on behalf of the woman.

We all must’ve had the instances when we were walking in the rain in a typhoon, with the trials that came with every single step, and, no sight of hope; but, are there, a different means of interactions to be had, if we can’t dodge it, then, why not just, trek through it?  Easier said than done, but how can we, not scapegoat on someone else around us, when we are, having it bad?  Only those who’d experienced the pains at their most painful, can understand the happiness that comes with the, ordinary.

The ride of an hour and a half, the train took us across half the island, before February 28th, the war was already in the distances, happening.  Wherever there’s people, there are, conflicts, but, this period of time that’s compressed, the two individuals sitting next to one another, aren’t enemies, but they’d, not exchanged another word more, such a shame.

The P.A. came on on the trains: Banciao Station approaching.  That woman got up, tipped her toes, silently, picked up the luggage she’d set down on the right front of her seat.  Before she got off, she’d turned toward the man, smiled, and, nodded to acknowledge him.  The gratitude was passed without the verbal communications, they’re, already, acquainted.  Getting along by themselves, not disturbing each other.  Forgetting this meeting that they had, leaving the warmth of the interactions behind, parting ways.

Being a bystander, my purpose, is to witness all of this, to know, that love is still, passed around in this world.

And so, this showed, how the kindness of a stranger can touch someone so deeply, and, hopefully, the writer who was a bystander, can take this act of a kindness s/he encountered from the strangers s/he saw on the trains, to others around her/him.

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The Dreams I Got Caught in, Yours, the Nightmare You Got Caught by, Mine

I was, caught by a dream once, long, long, long ago, that dream of you I’d had, that kept on, recurring, recurring, repeating in my state of sleep, I couldn’t break myself free out of it, and for a very long time, you were all I was, ever going to, dream about…

The dreams I got caught in, it was you, and you’d, become, my nightmare then!  I tried to, work my way, through these walls of my own mind, but kept, ramming into, the dead ends, like there’s no way out.

The dreams I got caught in, yours, and now, you will get stuck in the nightmare of my making, call it karma, or, pay-back if you will, after all, I’d already, gotten, ground down too hard, into, bits, and pieces here.

like this, caught, in a trap…photo from online

And now, it will be your turn, to get, slaughtered, by the nightmares of my making, because I’m in control of everything that will happen (or won’t!) here.

Let’s see how you enjoy these sweet little, nightmares of mine…

I will no longer be caught in your dreams, your turn, to, suffer, by living in my nightmare now, honey!

Note: this is still NOT directed toward anyone who CAN read, and if you can’t read yet, and can understand this, do give me a call, I love to meet ya.

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