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Batrioldman
Dear Sir,
I am not a dreamer
to send this letter
to you, The President of USA
the Top Representative
of Uncle Sam,
The old man with high nose
Always wears the stars & strips hat .
I am a Vietnamese Poet
Who only want to have a chat with you !
I always ask myself some question like this :
A lot of human lives of this misery-world
will be eliminated for the other’s survivals !
Is that the destiny of the Humanity ?
Have we, the humanity on this poor globe
already been putting our steps
into the third World War ?
and been being bathing under the ammunition-fires ?
And will we dance together
in the atomic fire-ball next time ?
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struck the colors
and stepped up to the helicopter
at 4:58 AM on Apr-30-1975
flew to the USS Blue Ridge war-ship
Six hours and thirty two minutes more
VC will put up their Liberation-Flag
On the top of the Independence Palace,
the last fortress of the South Vietnam Government.
If the Ambassador didn’t do like that
Surely He would be caught
by the VC Armed Force !
In this terrible case !
The Texas Cowboy,
The International Policeman
will suddenly become
a cleaned out gambler !
How can he save his face
before this large talkative world ? !
Very clearly, American had a time
to run away from Vietnam,
a poor Indochinese country
which is very far, far away
from your nation
It was not your fault
But that was from your predecessor’s
in the cold war !
That time
Capitalism hoped to set up its own bar
To cut Vietnam into 2 parts
at the 17 parallel of latitude.
Geneva agreement 1954
a sorrowful and rude
separation for all of us !
North and South Vietnam,
Both are the crazy inferior students
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of the 2 big global groups :
Capitalism and Communism !
We entered a lot of fighting campaigns
your bombs were over our heads
and the rifles of both sides
were in our hands.
We stupidly shot each other
as the western game was planned
I hope to remind you
Your predecessors had brought
into this poor country
1,900,000 riffles
14,900 mortars
47,000 grenade launchers
1,532 canons
1.200 airplanes
600 helicopters
( Excluding the airplanes sent from Thailand
And the airplanes which belonged to USA )
2,074 Armor Tanks
56,000 Army trucks
You have atomic bombs ,
You have Napalm, CBU bombs,
You have TOW rockets
You also have B.52 flying fortresses
You have a lot of Claymore land mines,
Barbed wire fences, infrared telescopes
Electronic fences, magnetic bombs
You had spent USD 925 Billion
That was the Budget for 10 years Fighting
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“The horses were changed in the middle of the stream” !
A betrayal by dirty hands
of the USA Ally !
On Feb 21 , 1972
Nixon and Kissinger came to Peking
He warmly shook the bloody hand of Mao Tse Tung
The Chinese Communist Chairman Dictator,
Who killed his comrades by public denouncement !
By young red guards, false legend heroes
in Cultural Revolution !
And killed over 50 million
naïve farmers by starvation !
At that time
For opening the potential large Chinese Market
To build up the future profits
for the finance big bosses of Wallstreet ?
Was the Nixon hand also bloody contaminated ?
To the year 1974, on 19 January
When the Chinese Navy attacked the South Vietnam Navy
For the purpose of occupying the Paracel Islands.
The USA Navy had turned its face
to the other direction,
turning the blind eyes of a foxy gambler !
That was really
ignoring the fate of an ally !
Please make a requiem for
Captain Nguy Van Tha
and Vice Captain Nguyen Thanh Tri
and 51 Navy Sailors
of South Vietnam Navy
They died in honor
sunk with the battleship
in the historical Battle of Paracel Islands ,
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When Nixon pressed Nguyen Van Thieu
President of the second Republic of Vietnam
To sign the Paris Peace Accord,
Nixon only hoped to bring back the USA pilots
Who were kept inside Ha Noi Hilton !
And when he put his step to the helicopter
Took off away from the garden of the White House
On a trip of resignation
As the big ancient tree was cut down
By the judiciary axe
of the Watergate Scandal
He forgot all of his “Vietnamization” policy
and his promises to poor President Thieu :
"I repeat my personal assurances to you,
"that the United States will react very strongly
and rapidly
to any violation of the agreement."
On the road you just start your step to leave the scene
That time were full of dead bodies
and a lot of bloodshed-chaos !
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40 mm Small Arms Grenade Munitions (SAGM)
M2HB machine gun
Ya , all the above very modern weapons
Have been used in Middle East !
as the special gifts to the Reaper
for his terrible dancing
with the noisy song of death !
Arab Spring
or Middle East & North Africa Bloody Hot Summer ?
The spring without blossom of flowers
and pigeons !
but the hot running fires and chaos
Absolute Destruction !
Broken, dissolved Societies !
Spark ignition came from
the self - burning tragedy
of the fruity street-vendor Mohamed Bouazizi
on Dec 18, 2010 !
From that day
to the day I am writing this poem
1981 days passed
The people’s uprising
From Tunisia spread to Algeria,
Egyp, Yemen,Jordan, Mauritania,
Saudi Arabia, Oman,
Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Libya
and Morocco .
How many lives have already passed away ?
How many naïve souls
of 1,001 nights legendary dreamy land
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Suddenly, painfully went to the thin air
Without your care ?
Oh ! Uncle Sam !, the global cop
Please take the time
To play out your destiny
and your spirit
Please in your own imagination
play a role of a Vietnamese mother
daily lonely sobbing,
and in the dark calm nights
despairingly waiting for her 11 children
Every of them
went out of her thatched cottage
and never came back
because all of them
one after another
were killed in the war !
Please imagine
a North Vietnamese handicapped Veteran
who came back to his poor farming family
married and had two children
both of them contaminated with Agent Orange
Dioxin Toxicity
Victims of “Ranch Hand” Campaign
Please enter into his daily suffering
as it has been continuously born.
Please , Uncle Sam , the Global Cop
Don’t run away !
try on the role
of the South Vietnamese Handicapped Veteran
after the war , when you already left here,
he with one leg remaining
became a street lottery-ticket vendor
a dusty , sunny , windy, rainy life
with daily profit around USD 3
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one year around USD 1,200
compare with average USA GDP per capita : USD 51,248.21
Oh , Uncle Sam, the Global Cop
Please take the role of a Kampuchea Citizen
He who one time lived in Pnongpenh,
then was evacuated
with cheap trifles
inside his small threadbare grey bag
He started his own trip
with his family-members
to an infinite horizon
and behind that horizon
may be the hard labor camp
or one of the “Killing Fields”
to wait for him and his family.
At that place,
his wife could meet serious starvation,
and pass away by overwork.
His son could die of disease
And he, himself
could be killed by a rusty hoe !
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Inside the above number,
Can you count
How many people were killed
by your UAV MQ-9 Reaper Predator ?
You, the Syrian Kurdish Male Refugee
Your wife died young
in the shipwreck
under the cold waves
of the Mediterranean Ocean
And your 3 year-old son’s body
washed up on the Turkish beach
Oh ! how terrible sadness for this scene !
Dear Sir,
In your society
“In God We Trust”
But to the Ammunition Producers
Surely they always like to live
on this poor Globe
With happiness easily lives
They always like to have
Billion USD in their own secret bank-account
and embrace some long legged film star on board
their (should be millions of dollars ) luxury cruiser
To them, the weapons producers and suppliers
“In Gun We Trust”
for their target-searching
“In Gold We Trust”
Batrioldman
(From 7:00 AM May 19,2016
To 12:44 AM May 22, 2016)
To remember Mr.Obama’s visiting-trip to Vietnam
from May 23rd to May 25th – 2016 .
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