{"id":36608,"date":"2015-04-29T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/damau.org\/?p=36608"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:42:39","slug":"leaving-tan-son-nhat-roi-tan-son-nhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/36608\/leaving-tan-son-nhat-roi-tan-son-nhat","title":{"rendered":"R\u1eddi Tân S\u01a1n Nh\u1ea5t… \/ Leaving Tan Son Nhat…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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R\u1eddi T\u00e2n S\u01a1n Nh\u1ea5t, ng\u00e0y 29 th\u00e1ng T\u01b0<\/h2>\n

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L\u1ea7n th\u1ee9 ba ra \u0111i,
th\u00e2n th\u1ec3 t\u00f4i
trong s\u1ee9c n\u00f3ng tr\u01b0\u1edbc m\u00f9a m\u01b0a,
n\u00e2u v\u00e0ng v\u00e0 l\u1ed7 ch\u1ed7 v\u1edbi k\u00fd \u1ee9c, ng\u1eadp ng\u1ee5a v\u1edbi m\u1ed3 h\u00f4i v\u00e0 b\u1ee5i \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng, c\u00f9ng m\u1ed9t
     c\u01a1n nh\u1edbp nh\u00e1p gi\u1eef tu\u1ed5i th\u01a1 t\u00f4i d\u00ednh ch\u1eb7t v\u00e0 m\u00e3i b\u1ea5t an,
b\u1ecb l\u1eadt l\u00ean v\u00e0 thi\u00eau ch\u00e1y b\u1edfi c\u00e1i n\u1eafng nam 54 \u0111\u1ed9 v\u0129.<\/p>\n

Nh\u01b0ng m\u1eb7t t\u00f4i,
khu\u00f4n m\u1eb7t s\u1ea1m kh\u00f4ng c\u00e2n \u0111\u1ed1i v\u1edbi m\u0169i t\u1eb9t v\u00e0 r\u0103ng s\u00e1ng b\u00f3ng, r\u0103ng th\u1eeba h\u01b0\u1edfng
     t\u1eeb cha t\u00f4i v\u00e0 s\u00e1ng h\u01a1n l\u1ecbch s\u1eed c\u1ee7a ch\u00fang t\u00f4i cho ph\u00e9p,
nh\u1eefng chi\u1ebfc r\u0103ng s\u01b0\u1edbng vui v\u00ec c\u01a1n m\u01b0a s\u1edbm v\u00e0 r\u1ed9n l\u00ean v\u1edbi c\u00e0 ph\u00ea s\u1eefa \u0111\u00e1,
     nh\u1eefng chi\u1ebfc r\u0103ng \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c minh h\u1ecda
b\u1edfi ng\u01b0\u1eddi t\u00ecnh,
r\u0103ng n\u00f3i th\u1ee9 ti\u1ebfng n\u1eeda n\u00e0y n\u1eeda n\u1ecd, c\u01b0\u1eddi c\u00f9ng s\u1ef1 l\u00e3ng qu\u00ean v\u00e0 u\u1ed1ng kh\u00f4ng
     so \u0111o.<\/p>\n

S\u00e0i G\u00f2n,
H\u00e3y nu\u1ed1t ta trong b\u1ee5ng mi v\u00e0 \u0111\u1eebng \u0111\u1ec3 cho ta n\u1ed5i l\u00ean tr\u00ean m\u1eb7t b\u1edd,
H\u00e3y b\u1ecf m\u1eb7c ta kh\u00f4 \u0111i tr\u00ean nh\u1eefng v\u1ec9a h\u00e8 c\u1ee7a mi tr\u1ea7n tru\u1ed3ng v\u00e0 b\u1eb7t c\u00e2m l\u1eddi h\u00e1t,
H\u00e3y \u0111\u00f3ng g\u00f3i ta trong b\u1ea7y ki\u1ebfn l\u1eeda v\u00e0 t\u01b0\u1edbc h\u1ebft c\u1ee7a ta nh\u1eefng l\u00e1 c\u1edd.<\/p>\n

S\u00e0i G\u00f2n,
Ta \u0111\u00e3 ba l\u1ea7n l\u00e0m t\u00f9 nh\u00e2n c\u1ee7a mi
Mi 40 n\u0103m l\u00e0 k\u1ebb c\u1eafp c\u1ee7a ta.<\/p>\n

S\u00e0i G\u00f2n,
Mi \u0111\u00e9o gi\u1ee1n m\u1eb7t.<\/p>\n

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\u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anhdao<\/em><\/p>\n

Leaving Tan Son Nhat, the 29th of April<\/h2>\n

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At the third departure,
my body
in pre-monsoon heat,
yellow brown and pockmarked with memory, muddled with sweat and dust,
     the same mess of stickiness that bound my childhood tight and never safe,
uncovered and charred by the south-of-54th-parallel sun.<\/p>\n

But my face,
my dark face asymmetric with flat nose and bright teeth, the teeth inherited
     from my father and brighter than our history’s allowance,
teeth happy from early rain and buzzing with ca phe sua da, teeth illustrated
     by my lover,
teeth that speak half and half, laugh with forgetfulness and drink without a
     chip on their shoulder.<\/p>\n

Saigon,
Swallow me into your belly and don’t let me float to the top,
Let me dry on your sidewalks naked and songless,
Package me in fireants and strip me of flags.<\/p>\n

Saigon,
I’m 3 times your prisoner
You’re 40 years my thief.<\/p>\n

Saigon,
You don’t fuck around.<\/p>\n

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S\u00e0i G\u00f2n,
\nTa \u0111\u00e3 ba l\u1ea7n l\u00e0m t\u00f9 nh\u00e2n c\u1ee7a mi<\/p>\n

Let me dry on your sidewalks naked and songless,
\nPackage me in fireants and strip me of flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,42,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dich-thuat","category-sang-tac","category-sang-viet-ngu","category-tho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36610,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions\/36610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}