By Lê Vĩnh Tài, translated by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
you’ve lost yourself
like someone’s who was definitely tested positive
lying in the emergency room
softly caressing what felt like
fractured glass
and rotten memories
at the park
you could crawl
forward on all four
then be stepped upon
like a cricket
the depression thus so in history
we don’t have heroes
we are just survivors
the nation,
has no suspense left
has no tears left
can no longer feel shame
can no longer feel pain
the nation has disappeared
in an adventure
each day a new opportunity
with this sickness
we will be rich like those naked
in a fur coat
—
bạn đánh mất bản thân mình
như một kẻ dương tính nặng
nằm trong phòng điều trị
nhẹ nhàng vuốt ve những cảm giác
như thủy tinh bị rạn
và…
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