by Dana Gelinas （Translated by Jen Hofer）

    Next to the fourteen excellent reasons

    to make February the month of love，

    which serve to advertise the best mattresses

    for double beds， queen or king size

    I read， just as in the heyday

    of Colonialism：

    "The soldiers ask the indigenous

    people to transport them on horses；

    if there aren't any， they force them

    to carry them on their backs."