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corpses of letters

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Thái Hạo
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


XÁC CHỮ

Những thân chữ rách nát
bám vào màn hình
để leo vào lòng người
trượt
ngã
vỡ nát
nghĩa địa
xác chữ la liệt trên mảnh thủy tinh
liếc sắc
không được mai táng
và cầu siêu
gió thổi hun hút
hồn chữ xoay như đám lá trên mộ thiên đường

Ta quỳ bên góc tối của thế kỉ 21
trông làm Vũ Đại
để khóc
và trốn cảnh sát
mỗi nhà giáo là một cảnh sát
mỗi bè bạn là người kiểm duyệt
là tòa án
xử tử những con chữ nổi loạn
những con chữ rướm máu
lang thang
gào khóc
đi vào huyệt mộ
mênh mông
cõi người

CORPSES OF LETTERS 
 The words shredded spattered on the screen crawling into the heart of humanity slipping falling crumbling necropolis corpses of letters everywhere shards…

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South Dakota Settles with Tribal Nations in Voting Rights Lawsuit | Currents

n August 2021, The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Lakota People’s Law Project, and individual voters filed a lawsuit in district court alleging that the state was failing to uphold portions of the law, particularly a mandate for driver’s license offices and public assistance agencies to provide voter registration services to their clients during applications, renewals and change of address requests.

In May 2022, the United States District Court of South Dakota ruled that the states did indeed commit several NVRA violations, leading to the recent settlement.

“The settlement we negotiated details changes that South Dakota must make to provide the voter registration services guaranteed to each and every voter by federal law,” Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Scott Herman said in a statement to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF). NARF negotiated the terms of the settlement on the plaintiffs’ behalf.

Source: South Dakota Settles with Tribal Nations in Voting Rights Lawsuit | Currents

Let’s Fight for What Counts to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | Inter Press Service

Next week, taking place alongside the UN General Assembly, President Biden hosts a financing summit in New York of such importance that it will determine if millions of people live, will shape the world around us for years to come and will set the future direction of global health. At least $18 billion is needed to fund the work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Source: Let’s Fight for What Counts to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | Inter Press Service

Corruption, fraud and hackers mask the illegal origin of meat in the Amazon – Mágica Mistura 能

A new report by ‘Repórter Brasil’ shows how easily documents used by slaughterhouses to block purchases of oxen linked to deforestation or slave labor are tampered with, opening the gap for fraud involving even civil servants For Reporter Brazil The largest Brazilian slaughterhouses have announced plans to ensure that, until the end of the decade, they will not buy one […] Source: Corruption, fraud and hackers mask the illegal origin of meat in the Amazon – Mágica Mistura 能

Pondering Democracy

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We learn in school that pure democracy is founded in the theory of the basic human right to be heard. Democracies are based upon the concept of human equality. It is the cornerstone of the governance of such nations as the United Kingdom, India, and the United States. Democracy is the prime element of all legitimate governments on Earth.

These are lofty words that have been repeated by concerned, responsible citizens and political figures throughout the modern era. Today’s major democracies actually take the form of some iteration of a democratic republic. They may exist as a parliamentary system such as in the UK or a federal system as in the US. The common element is the express right of citizens to vote and have a say-so in their self-governance.

Democratic republics have some major flaws, but the system is the best that human beings have invented so far. A…

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No hay tiempo para despedirnos — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA Derechos reservados conforme a la ley/ Copyright No hay tiempo para despedirnos. Simplemente, en algún momento insospechado, abandonamos a la gente que tanto amamos, las cosas que acumulamos, el paisaje en el que estábamos, y nos vamos en silencio a otras fronteras, a un plano que la mayoría supone y asegura […]

No hay tiempo para despedirnos — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

heart strong

Develop. Inspire. Transform.

the pale
and lambent sky
is dried

and full of mist

swirling in colors, made of notes
a song

adrift

in the east
where my heart is strong
and just enough

with you

the music of my life
and my one and only love


Photo by brittanygraytoday, Pixabay


Twitter#vss365prompt words used: pale, lambent, east. You can follow me on Twitter here.


Submissions are still open for the Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow: 30 Poems in 30 Days Collaboration, and will remain open until September 23. The submission details are located here.

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La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) P3e8: “Astray” & A Note on Believability

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      This whole show is starting to go astray! 

Ok, unlike fiction, which allows a reader to suspend disbelief if sufficiently well written (which this scene was not, for me, anyway), non-fiction must be credible, backed by either good reasoning, or good evidence.  That is where life long education comes in.   Ok, back to this bad episode of language-learning (in Castillian):

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   I do love the plans within a plan, but this Harry Potter moment is a bit much: hilarious, but not as if they’d believe it, on no other evidence.

   Now, this manipulation, yes, quite believable, unfortunately.

Ayy…

And hang on, here.  If the Professor’s father was supposed to have fought with the Partisans in Italy, hence teaching him the song Bella Ciao, then why would he have ended up having kids in Franco’s Spain?

    Last  week  was Part…

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