Mừng
Xuân / Celebrating Tet (Lunar New Year)!
Mừng
Đảng / Celebrating the Communist Party!
-- slogan on banners hung in the
streets from Saigon to Hanoi
Miss
Saigon II
Việt
kiều, "overseas Vietnamese," she is called.
In
her eyes, she sees the unrecognizable place
Evergreen
-- the rice paddies, a man with his plowing buffalo
Turning
to the cities, the business buildings, villas, hotels;
Nothing
much is owned by the ordinary people
A
painful time, followed the fall of Saigon,
Millions
of South Vietnamese were pushed to the "new economic zones"
They
left their beloved houses to the victors --
Of
them, they are the "prize-winning" communist party members,
Depriving
the Vietnamese of their human rights *
A
new era, Communism has been born
Yesterday
he was a Viet Cong, today he is the master of Miss Saigon...
Linh
Duy Vo
On
the first trip home
Tết,
February 2006 ©
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