Where But In Mexico??

Where but in Mexico...do you see a coffee ground Virgin?

Where but in Mexico...do you see a man dancing around with a big bull on his head with fireworks coming out of the bull's ass?

Where but in Mexico...within 30 yards of each other in the zocalo do you see a 50 piece brass band playing danzon music, a children's Pastorella and a men's chorus singing Christmas carols... and if you stand in just the right place, hear them all equally?

Where but in Mexico...do you see, coming down the main boulevard, over 100 taxis, honking their horn and all dressed up for the Virgin of Guadalupe?

Where but in Mexico...do you see a giant metal structure, called a Castillo, which explodes with gigantic fireworks, the sparks raining down on the crowd and nobody gives a damn or tries to run away?

Where but in Mexico...do you see an impromptu turkey market, right in the regular weekly market, with all sorts of indigenous folks bring one or two turkeys to sell, all holding their turkeys by their ankles and the turkeys not even complaining one gobble?

Where but in Mexico...do you see a nativity scene that includes not only the holy family, but baseball players, Mark Twain, an elephant and pink flamingos?

Where but in Mexico...do you see pickup trucks driven around town, with oranges, pineapples or big bottles of water in the back and the driver is loudly proclaiming through a loudspeaker just what a good deal he has...at 8 o'clock in the morning???

Where but in Mexico...do you see more off key oom-pah bands roaming the streets along with fireworks...at 4 o'clock in the morning?

Where but in Mexico...are grasshoppers eaten as a staple in the everyday diet?

Where but in Mexico...do you see the cutest little kids all dressed up as Joseph, Mary and the three kings, riding around in the back of a pickup truck followed by an off-key, very loud 5 piece brass band along, for just extra noise, a few snare drums?

Where but in Mexico...so much noise, so much color, so many different cuisines, so many kinds of music, so many different landscapes, so many different people and so many different cultures...total sensory overload?

God, I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!!