A talk with a poet who hang around by bikes in his leisure time
ရန္ကုန္မွာစီးတာေတာ့သိပ္မၾကာေသးဘူး။ အရင္တုန္းက နယ္မွာေတာ့ စီးျဖစ္ေနတာေပါ့။ စက္ဘီးကို တအားၾကီး စီးတဲ့အဆင့္ေတာ့ မ ဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ခုကဒီမွာဘာျဖစ္ေနလဲဆိုေတာ့ bus-car ေတြကလည္း တအား က်ပ္တယ္ေလ။ အဆင္မေျပဘူး။ စက္ဘီးကအမ်ားၾကီးအဆင္ေျပပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုေျပာရမလဲဆိုေတာ့ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕ထဲက တကယ္တမ္းတရား၀င္ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဒါေပမဲ့လည္း ဟုတ္ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဟုတ္ ေပါ့ေပါ့ပါးပါးေလးနဲ႕ လူ လည္းသိပ္ဒုကၡမေပးဘူးေလ။ တျခားလူေတြကိုလည္း ဒုကၡမေပးဘူး ဆုိေတာ့ စီးရတာအိုေကတယ္။
အခု လင့္စေဒါင္းကေနျပီးေတာ့ ကုကိၠဳင္းတုိ႕ဘာတို႕ အဲ့လိုေ လွ်ာက္ျပီးေတာ့သြားတာေပါ့။ ျမိဳ႕ထဲေတာ့ စက္ဘီးနဲ႕ပဲလစ္ေနတယ္။
အရင္တုန္းကေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္စြဲစြဲျမဲျမဲစီးျဖစ္တာ။ ေမာ္လျမိဳင္မွာ ေနတုန္းကေတာ့ စက္ဘီးေလးတစ္စီး႐ွိတယ္။ ျပိဳင္ဘီး။ ေက်ာင္းတက္တာေတြ ကအစ စက္ဘီးနဲ႕သြားျဖစ္တယ္ အဲ့တုန္းကေပါ့။ ေက်ာင္းနဲ႕ အိမ္နဲ႕က ၁၀မုိင္ ေက်ာ္ေလာက္႐ွိတယ္။ စက္ဘီးနဲ႕ပဲလစ္တာ။ အဲ့လိုပဲေပါ့ ေစာေစာနင္း။ ျပန္ရင္ အဲ့စက္ဘီးနဲ႕ပဲေပါ့။
ရန္ကုန္ေရာက္တဲ့အထိ အဲ့စက္ဘီးေလးသယ္လာေသးတယ္။ အဲ့စက္ ဘီးေလးက မေရာင္းရက္လို႕ဆိုျပီး သယ္လာတာ။ ရန္ကုန္မွာ အခုိးခံရတယ္။ အဲ့ လိုမ်ိဳးေတြ။
အရင္က ညီေလးတစ္ေယာက္႐ိွတယ္။ ဒီေကာက္က ေတာင္ဒဂံုကေန စမ္းေခ်ာင္းအထိ စက္ဘီးနဲ႕လာလာေနတာ။ အခုေတာ့ ဒီေကာင္မစီးျဖစ္ေတာ့ ဘူး။ အဲ့တုန္းကေတာ့ အဲ့ေကာင္က စီးစီးလာတာ မင္းေ၀းလွခ်ည္လားလုိ႕။ မဟုတ္ဘူးတဲ့ အဲ့တာကၽြန္ေတာ္ သေဘာက်လုိ႕တဲ့။ အဲ့တုန္းက အဲ့ေကာင္
စက္ဘီးေတာ္ေတာ္စီးျဖစ္တယ္။
စက္ဘီးစီးတာကုိေတာ့ စိတ္ထဲမွာ သေဘာက်တယ္။ စက္ဘီးေတာ့
ဟုတ္ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဟုတ္ေတာ့ ျပန္္ျပီး စီးအံုးမယ္လို႕။ အဲ့လိုနဲ႕စီးျဖစ္သြားတာ။ ကဗ်ာေရးပါတယ္။ အဲ့လိုေရးေတာ့ေရးျဖစ္တယ္ press ေပၚလည္းေရးျဖစ္တယ္။ ဖတ္ဖူးမလားဆိုေတာ့ နာမည္ၾကီးေတာ့မဟုတ္ပါဘူး ဒီလိုပဲေရးျဖစ္ေနတာ။ လင္းသဏ္ညီပါ။ Solo ေလးတစ္အုပ္ေလာက္ကေတာ့ ၂၀၁၄ ေလာက္ကထုတ္ ထားတယ္။ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႕ ထုတ္ထားတာေတြေတာ့ရွိတယ္။
၂၆၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၀၁၅
It is a short period since I start biking at Yangon. In the past, I used to bike at the countryside. At the moment, I do not bike that often. What is happening at Yangon is the buses are over- crowded. It is not convenient. Bikes are more convenient. The fact is that biking inside the city is not legal actually. Whatever it is quite simple and does not harm people. As it does not burden the others too, biking is relevant.
These days I hang around places by bikes such as from ... to Koak-Kine. I shift to downtown by bikes. In the previous, I was a usual biker. I had a bike when I was in Mawlamyine. It’s a road bicycle. At that time, also when I went to school, I used to bike. My house is 10 miles far from the school. And I used to shift there by bikes. I used to go out earlier in the morning with my bike and returned home also by that bike. Till when I arrived at Yangon, I brought that bike with me because I dun feel like to sell it. But it was stolen at Yangon. It is like this here.
In former time, I had a brother. He usually comes to Sanchaung from South Dagon by bike. But now he does not bike anymore. At that time, I told him that he was biking such a long distance. And he told me back that it is because he is fond of biking. In that meantime, he biked a lot.
I enjoy biking. And I thought that I will bike again whatever it is. After then I bike usually. Well I write poems. I write very often as well as write on wordspress.com. I am not sure you have read mine, I am not famous but I continue writing like usual. It s “Linn Thet Nyi”. My debut solo is produced at 2014. There are others which are produced together with my friends.
26th December 2015
Translated by Thu Zar Aung