Trần Xuân An - Rough 'questions - answers' and late joss-stick (poem)
National reconciliation:
ROUGH ‘QUESTIONS – ANSWERS’
AND A LATE JOSS-STICK
Original (poem): Trần Xuân An
question: “you had been an anti-communist soldier,
but, why had you relied on the French enemy, colonialist,
to fight against us?”.
answer: “because the red was the atheistic rebel, foreign aggressor,
with their atheism;
because, there was no reason why had we expelled the elephant
to receive in style the tiger!
because the USA interventionist was one of the allied countries,
with the Human Rights;
the Human Rights did not educate everybody feud,
denounce publicly;
because the Yellow flag was the yellow of dynasty
which had enlarged the Southern,
the Dang Trong (the ‘Inside’ Part of our Fatherland)”.
read extract of that report on an interrogation
felt heartfelt, but it had seemed obstinate
an educator-warden of the defeated army’s remnants said:
“the puppet was suchlike!”.
since that time, about thirty years had passed,
burnt joss-stick on mound of a defeated soldier prisoner’s grave,
behind that old re-education camp,
repented about victim of an injustice, he let two words slip out his mouth
“nation destiny!”,
and he cried with sobs.
Morning, 23 Nov 2014
Translation (meaning): T.X.A., 03 Dec 2014.
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Hòa giải dân tộc:
THÔ MỘC HỎI – ĐÁP
VÀ NÉN HƯƠNG MUỘN
ROUGH ‘QUESTIONS – ANSWERS’
AND A LATE JOSS-STICK
Trần Xuân An
hỏi, sao ông chống cộng
lại dựa vào giặc Pháp, thực dân?
(question: “you had been an anti-communist soldier,
but, why had you relied on the French enemy, colonialist,
to fight against us?”.)
đáp, vì đỏ là giặc vô thần, ngoại bang
vì chẳng lẽ đuổi voi rước hổ
vì can thiệp Mỹ là đồng minh nhân quyền
nhân quyền không giáo dục căm thù, đấu tố
vì cờ vàng là màu vàng rộng mở phương nam, Đàng Trong
(answer: “because the red was the atheistic rebel, foreign aggressor,
with their atheism;
because, there was no reason why had we expelled the elephant
to receive in style the tiger!
because the USA interventionist was one of the allied countries,
with the Human Rights;
the Human Rights did not educate everybody feud,
denounce publicly;
because the Yellow flag was the yellow of dynasty
which had enlarged the Southern,
the Dang Trong (the ‘Inside’ Part of our Fatherland)”.)
xem trích đoạn biên bản
thấy chân thành, sao dường như ngông
anh quản giáo tàn binh: bọn ngụy là vậy đó
(read extract of that report on an interrogation
felt heartfelt, but it had seemed obstinate
an educator-warden of the defeated army’s remnants said:
“the puppet was suchlike!”.)
sau ba mươi năm
thắp hương cho nấm mồ, sau trại tù thuở nọ
đau xót nỗi oan xưa, bật ra hai từ vận nước, khóc ròng.
(since that time, about thirty years had passed,
burnt joss-stick on mound of a defeated soldier prisoner’s grave,
behind that old re-education camp,
repented about victim of an injustice, he let two words slip out his mouth
“nation destiny!”,
and he cried with sobs.)
T.X.A.
sáng 23-11 HB14 (2014)
Translation (meaning): T.X.A., 03 Dec 2014
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