Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile.
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Poem--one line hybrid--On the Democracy Circuit
ho thwar dee thwar yinn
bama pye ah kyaung pyaw yin
Helsinki yauk thwar te
Going here and there
talking about democracy in Burma
I arrived in Helsinki.
Kyi May Kaung
4-16-2024
