"GUYS GUESS WHAT!"

We all scramble to the front room.

Kookie holds up two plastic bags

Bulging--CHEERS--full of more food.

Before he can pull out his bingsu surprise

I grunt into the floor--

head full of ghosts and tummy full of good,

I close my heavy eyes.

"Family, food, friends and rest,

Lil Tan has had his fill."

I feel a pull into Kook's chest.

"That's what holidays are for."