after the gregorian new year and the lunar new year there is the khmer new year and with it comes my birthday and the anniversary of the reason i exist, here in this country in this psyche april 17, 1975 bombs and gunfire the fall no time to think about the new year no incense … Continue reading third new year
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dear america
the most dangerous men in the world wear business suits, not turbans the most dangerous men in the world do not pray five times a day wherever they may find themselves the most dangerous men in the world speak perfect english and know little about the Qu'ran the most dangerous men in the world are … Continue reading dear america
a day that hurts
in a few weeks, it will have been thirty years since my birth and forty years since the day the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh i wonder whether my family thought about that day on the day that i was born if they are reminded each year that day comes around of what they went … Continue reading a day that hurts
whimsical war strategies
after listening to this radiolab program. call those bombs 'whimsical' marvel at how the desperate can be so poetic in their retaliatory strategy milk the pathos of small town america disrupted tragic, indeed, those innocent lives lost by bombs attached to paper balloons floated on a jetstream also tragic is the insensitive act of telling … Continue reading whimsical war strategies
