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Le Nam: The Boat. (In lingua inglese)
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Nam Le,
TheBoat.

 
To—

Ta Thi Xuan Le, my mother
Le Huu Phuc, my father
and Truong and Victor, my brothers.

Importunate along the dark

Horizon of immediacies

The flares of desperation rise.

—W. H. AUDEN

How strange that when the summons came I always felt good.

—FRANK CONROY

Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice

My father arrived on a rainy morning. I was dreaming about a poem, the dull thluck thluck of a typewriter’s keys punching out the letters. It was a good
...something out of frame. One of her ex-boyfriends had taken it at Lake MacBride. She looked happy. I snatched it and turned it facedown, covering it with
scrap paper.

As I walked into the kitchen I thought, for a moment, that I’d left the fire escape open. I could hear rainwater gushing along gutters, down through the
pipes. Then I saw my father at the sink, sleeves rolled up, sponge in hand, washing the month-old crusted mound of dishes. The smell was awful.
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