Do Trees Cry? – yaskhan


Do trees cry when you chop them?
Do trees cry when you cut them down?
Do they feel the pain when the axe falls?
Do they bleed when you put a blade through their bark?
I wonder what happens to their roots? 
I wonder how they feel when uprooted ?
Do they weep when they are gutted? 
Are their screams and cries for help lost in the burning pain
when fires light up their unheard screams 
Like an unseen bloodstain

Source: Do Trees Cry? – yaskhan

those who have tasted the saltiness of the past [NF 20:14] – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A Man of Two Faces by VIET THANH NGUYEN

the poem doesn’t understand how
an employee of a bank could “defraud” nearly four thousand million dong
did she not care for her life
like the important men playing politics
where would she find the money to fund it?

the nation starved
a lawless hunger
beyond the satiated parties high on blood

to soothe the hunger
can’t mean
we have to lick a hot wok
with blistered tongues
look at each other and cry
to then
fall into
an endless
sleep

those who have tasted the saltiness of the past
the blood, they are now in the wok
stir fried and stunned
no one
no one
who? No one
will take the responsibility
for a warehouse that could hold four thousand billion
it was just an empty warehouse

these were not just long nights
we screamed
and shout
and went to sleep without the need for food

there were many nights like that
the banquets at restaurants
no rice just ceremonies
with bright banners
an execution surpassing
surpassing
like an old habit
the way she used to shred bullets randomly

she had covered
the hellish starvation
how deep was it
it’s impossible to know for sure
our demonic fights
fell for the hopeless love affair
waiting endlessly for a heartbreaking dream
with her

only because she
she gosh
she was the one

Source: those who have tasted the saltiness of the past [NF 20:14] – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Lauren Boebert turns up to Trump trial just days after her son appeared in court on felony charges without her | Daily Mail Online

  • Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert joined fellow GOPers at Trump’s NYC trial
  • Boebert was a no-show at her teenage son Tyler’s criminal trial last week
  • Tyler told the judge he had financial struggles despite his mom’s $175k salary 

Source: Lauren Boebert turns up to Trump trial just days after her son appeared in court on felony charges without her | Daily Mail Online

Solo se recicla el 20% de las 11.200 millones de toneladas de residuos que inundan de basura el planeta cada año – Stigmatis News

Vertedero de Agbogbloshie, barrio de Accra, capital de Ghana. EFE/A. Carrasco Ragel/ARCHIVO

Son datos que se enmarcan en el Día Internacional del Reciclaje este viernes 17 de mayo, aunque en diciembre de 2022 Naciones Unidas adoptó una resolución para la creación del Día Internacional de Cero Residuos -el 30 de marzo-, que pretende minimizar los residuos todo lo posible.

Source: Solo se recicla el 20% de las 11.200 millones de toneladas de residuos que inundan de basura el planeta cada año – Stigmatis News