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Vũ Ngọc Giao

A poem in Vietnamese by Vũ Hồ Như
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

the funeral hearse passes by
mumbling in the street
a mad man, standing
holding onto his dick !

the dying light leaning into autumn
the same mad man
trying to stick it into some dumb bitch
nothing, just a tickle !

VIẾT TRONG NGÀY ĐƯA MA
MỘT THẰNG KHỐN KIẾP

xe tang qua
phố lầm bầm
một người điên , đứng
tay cầm con cu !

trời chiều đã ngã vào thu
vẫn người điên đó ,
đang ” cù ” con câm !

vũ hồ như


Vũ Ngọc Giao or Vũ Hồ NHư, the Vietnamese musician, and poet born in 1951, My Tho. A former student Petrus Ký Sài Gòn (1961 – 1968), an alumnus of the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Literature Saigon (1968 – 1970), he is the founder of Phu Nhuan Guitar Club, Saigon. His poetry is published on many literary websites. A few familiar songs: Looking back at my life, The man with sad eyes (a poem by Đỗ Trung Quân), His return on a rainy night, The July rain…

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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