Friday, May 27, 2011

Litany for Dictatorships

For all those beaten, for the broken heads,
The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,
The ghosts in the burning city of our time ...

For those taken in rapid cars to the house and beaten
By the skilful boys, the boys with the rubber fists,
—Held down and beaten, the table cutting their loins,
Or kicked in the groin and left, with the muscles jerking
Like a headless hen’s on the floor of the slaughter-house
While they brought the next man in with his white eyes staring.

For those who still said “Red Front!” or “God Save the Crown!”
And for those who were not courageous
But were beaten nevertheless.
For those who spit out the bloody stumps of their teeth
Quietly in the hall,
Sleep well on stone or iron, watch for the time
And kill the guard in the privy before they die,
Those with the deep-socketed eyes and the lamp burning.

For those who carry the scars, who walk lame—for those
Whose nameless graves are made in the prison-yard
And the earth smoothed back before morning and the lime scattered.

For those slain at once. For those living through months and years
Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day
To the work or the queue for meat or the secret club,
Living meanwhile, begetting children, smuggling guns,
And found and killed at the end like rats in a drain.

For those escaping
Incredibly into exile and wandering there.
For those who live in the small rooms of foreign cities
And who yet think of the country, the long green grass,
The childhood voices, the language, the way wind smelt then,
The shape of rooms, the coffee drunk at the table,
The talk with friends, the loved city, the waiter’s face,
The gravestones, with the name, where they will not lie
Nor in any of that earth. Their children are strangers.

For those who planned and were leaders and were beaten
And for those, humble and stupid, who had no plan
But were denounced, but grew angry, but told a joke,
But could not explain, but were sent away to the camp,
But had their bodies shipped back in the sealed coffins,
“Died of pneumonia.” “Died trying to escape.”

For those growers of wheat who were shot by their own wheatstacks,
For those growers of bread who were sent to the ice-locked wastes,
And their flesh remembers their fields.

For those denounced by their smug, horrible children
For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State,
For all those strangled or gelded or merely starved
To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock,
The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying,
The revolutionist lynched by the private guards
To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states.

For those betrayed by the neighbors they shook hands with
And for the traitors, sitting in the hard chair
With the loose sweat crawling their hair and their fingers restless
As they tell the street and the house and the man’s name.

And for those sitting at table in the house
With the lamp lit and the plates and the smell of food,
Talking so quietly; when they hear the cars
And the knock at the door, and they look at each other quickly
And the woman goes to the door with a stiff face,
Smoothing her dress.
“We are all good citizens here.
We believe in the Perfect State.”
And that was the last
Time Tony or Karl or Shorty came to the house
And the family was liquidated later.
It was the last time.
We heard the shots in the night
But nobody knew next day what the trouble was
And a man must go to his work. So I didn’t see him
For three days, then, and me near out of my mind
And all the patrols on the streets with their dirty guns
And when he came back, he looked drunk, and the blood was on him.

For the women who mourn their dead in the secret night,
For the children taught to keep quiet, the old children,
The children spat-on at school.
For the wrecked laboratory,
The gutted house, the dunged picture, the pissed-in well,
The naked corpse of Knowledge flung in the square
And no man lifting a hand and no man speaking.

For the cold of the pistol-butt and the bullet’s heat,
For the rope that chokes, the manacles that bind,
The huge voice, metal, that lies from a thousand tubes
And the stuttering machine-gun that answers all.

For the man crucified on the crossed machine-guns
Without name, without resurrection, without stars,
His dark head heavy with death and his flesh long sour
With the smell of his many prisons—John Smith, John Doe,
John Nobody—oh, crack your mind for his name!
Faceless as water, naked as the dust,
Dishonored as the earth the gas-shells poison
And barbarous with portent.
This is he.
This is the man they ate at the green table
Putting their gloves on ere they touched the meat.
This is the fruit of war, the fruit of peace,
The ripeness of invention, the new lamb,
The answer to the wisdom of the wise.
And still he hangs, and still he will not die,
And still, on the steel city of our years
The light fails and the terrible blood streams down.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943)
[American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist]


From Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1955)

"ဘယာနကဂါထာ"

ဒီကာလဆိုးအတွင်းက
မီးကျွမ်းမြို့တော်ကြီးရဲ့
နှိပ်စက်ညှင်းပန်းခံရသူတွေ
ဦးခွံကြေမွကွဲ သွေးချင်းချင်းရဲနေတဲ့သူတွေ
အကာအကွယ်မဲ့သူတွေ
လူသာမန်တွေ
ဖိနှိပ်ခံရသူတွေ
မကျွတ်လွတ်သေးတဲ့ ဝိဉာည်တွေ
အားလုံးအတွက်….။

ငရဲအိမ် ကိုဦးတည်
ဒလကြမ်းမောင်းသွားတဲ့ကားပေါ် ပစ်တင်ခံရတဲ့သူတွေ
(သူတို့ကို)
ကျွမ်းကျင်သူ တွေက ရိုက်နှက်
ရာဘာလက်အိပ်စွပ်လက်တွေနဲ့ထိုးကြိတ်
မြေပေါ်လှဲချ ကန်ကျောက်
ခုံပေါ်တင် အသားလှီးဖြတ်
အကြောဆွဲဆတ်ဆတ်တုန်
သားသတ်ရုံမြေပြင်ပေါ်က ခေါင်းပြတ်ကြက်လို (ဖြစ်တော့မှ)
သွေးဆုတ်ဖြူရော် ငေးကြောင်မျက်လုံးတွေနဲ့နောက်တယောက်ကိုခေါ်သွင်း…။

"ကြွပါခင်ဗျာ"…
"မင်းတြားကြီးဘုန်းကြီးပါစေ" ဆိုသူတွေ
ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိမရှိသော်ငြား..ရိုက်နှက်နှိပ်စက် ခံ သူတွေ
ကျွတ်ထွက်သွားတဲ့သွားကို သွေးနဲ့ရော တိတ်တဆိတ်ထွေးထုတ်ခဲ့သူတွေ
သံမဏိပေါ် ကျောက်တုံးပေါ်အိပ်စက်ခဲ့သူတွေ
အခွင့်ကောင်းကိုချောင်း
မသေခင် ကင်းစောင့်ကိုသတ်ခဲ့သူတွေ
မျက်တွင်းအဝီစိမှာ မီးတောက်နေသူတွေ…
သူတို့တွေအားလုံးအတွက်….။

ဒဏ်ရာအမာရွတ်တွေနဲ့လူတွေ
ခြေဆာထော့နဲ့ နေသူတွေ အတွက်
အကျဉ်းထောင်ဝင်းထဲက အမည်မဲ့သေတွင်းများ
မိုးမသောက်ခင် မြေပြင်ကိုပြန်ညှိ
ဖုံး ဖိ အုပ် နင်း ထုံးဖြူခင်း..။

အလျင်အမြန် ကွက်မျက်ခံရသူတွေနဲ့
နှစ်လရှည်ကြာ သည်းခံ စောင့်ကြည့် မျှော်လင့်
အလုပ်သွား
အသားလေးနဲနဲရဖို့တန်းစီ
လျို့ဝှက်တိုင်ပင်
သားသမီးပွားစီး
လက်နက်ခိုးသွင်း သူတွေလည်း
နောက်ဆုံးတော့
ရေမြောင်းထဲက ကြွက်တွေလို သုတ်သင်ခံရ။

လွတ်မြောက်ထွက်ပြေးသွားသူတွေ
နိုင်ငံရပ်ခြားမြို့ကြီးများရဲ့ အခန်းကျဉ်းလေးတွေမှာနေထိုင်နေသူတွေ
သူတို့အမြဲတွေးနေသမျှတွေက….
ကိုယ့်တိုင်းပြည်အကြောင်း
မျက်ခင်းစိမ်းတွေအကြောင်း
ကလေးဘဝက ပြောစကား ဆိုစကား တွေအကြောင်း
လေသင်းနံ့လေးအကြောင်း
နေထိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့အခန်းလေးအကြောင်း
ကော်ဖီသောက်ခဲ့တဲ့စားပွဲလေးအကြောင်း
စားပွဲထိုးလေးတွေအကြောင်း
သူငယ်ချင်းမိတ်ဆွေတွေနဲ့ ပြောဆိုခဲ့တဲ့အကြောင်း
ကိုယ်ချစ်တဲ့ကိုယ့်မြို့အကြောင်း
အမည်ရေးထိုးထားတဲ့ အုတ်ဂူ ကမ္မည်းကျောက်ပြားတွေအကြောင်း
သူတို့သေခွင့်မရမယ့် သုဿန်အကြောင်း
သူတို့နေခွင့်မရတဲ့ မြေအကြောင်း
နောက်ဆုံး....
သားသမီးရင်းတွေနဲ့ သူစိမ်းပြင်ပြင်ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့ရတဲ့အကြောင်း..။

စီစဉ်ခေါင်းဆောင်သူတွေကိုညှင်းပန်း
မစီစဉ် ရိုးအသူတွေကိုစွပ်စွဲ
ဒေါသမျိုချ ဟားတိုက်ခဲ့သူတွေအပါအဝင်
ကြောင်းရင်းမဲ့စွာ အဝေးမှာ “စခန်းသွင်း”
မကြာခင်တော့ပြန်ပို့
အလုံပိတ်ခေါင်းတလားတွေနဲ့
စာသားတစ်ကြောင်းရေး
“အအေးမိ၍ ကွယ်လွန်”…..။
“ထွက်ပြေးရင်းသေဆုံး”..…။

Saturday, April 30, 2011

ညမဲ့ကြယ်

ငါကိုယ်တိုင်မပိုင်ဆိုင်လိုတော့ပြီ
လွတ်လပ်ဘဝတွေ….။

ငါကိုယ်တိုင်မနာယူလိုတော့ပြီ
မြင့်မြတ်တရားသံ….။

ဘာတွေကို ယုံပြီး အသက်ဆက်ရှင်နေလဲ
ငါပိုင်ဆိုင်တာ
ရင်ဗလာဟင်းလင်းပြင်။


ညမဲ့ကြယ်စင်
လောင်ကြွမ်းခြင်း မုန်းတီးငြီးငွေ့နေပြီ..။
ငါ့ ယုံကြည်ချက်
ငါ့ ကို အဆိပ်တက်။
[ခြိမ့်ထက်-၂၀၁၁]

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Japan's nuclear concerns explained

Reactor basics
There are several different types of nuclear reactors, including boiling water reactor systems and pressurized water reactor systems. The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are boiling water reactor systems. Here's how they work:

image source:http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646025.html

At the heart of a nuclear reactor is the reactor vessel, a large steel tank filled with water. It's loaded with 12-foot-long fuel rods made of radioactive pellets encased in zirconium alloy. These ceramic fuel pellets are usually made of enriched uranium 235, which is incapable of creating a nuclear explosion.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant used more toxic mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel rods, which contain a mixture of uranium and plutonium that is reprocessed from spent uranium.

The fuel rods are loaded vertically into the reactor vessel in a precise grid pattern known as the reactor core. Nuclear fission, or the splitting of atoms, is initiated. As each atom splits, it gives off large amounts of energy in the form of heat and radiation. It also sends free neutrons toward other atoms, causing some of those atoms to fission. This can lead to a chain reaction.

Rods that absorb neutrons control this chain reaction. When the control rods are present, neutrons are absorbed and the reaction slows. When the rods are removed, the reaction increases.
See demonstration video :CNN Video 1 - Reactor Basics
Normal operation
The speed of the chain reaction and the temperature of the fuel are also controlled by the water in the reactor vessel. If the reaction is properly controlled, it reaches a point of equilibrium known as "criticality," in which the amount of heat produced remains constant.

The heat generated by the nuclear reaction boils the water in the reactor vessel, turning the water into steam. This steam flows out of the reactor vessel through pipes to steam turbines. As the steam turns the turbines, generators connected to the turbines spin and generate electricity.

The steam then travels to a condenser unit, which cools the steam, turning it back into water. This water is pumped back into the reactor, where it is used again to control the reactor temperature and reaction speed.
See demonstration video :CNN Video 2 - Normal Operation
Meltdown
The reactor will operate at a safe temperature as long as the control rods are able to control the chain reaction and cool water is pumped into the reactor continuously. If, however, the nuclear reaction or reactor temperature races out of control, a meltdown can occur.

The fuel pellets normally operate at a temperature of 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. If the temperature rises to 2,200 degrees for a sustained period of time, the fuel rods can become damaged. If the temperature continues to rise, the fuel rods can eventually melt. This melting can release large amounts of radiation and even vaporize the core.

The high temperatures can also compromise the reactor vessel and surrounding containment systems that may be present. If these systems are breached, radioactive material may be released into the surrounding environment.

In Japan and the United States, a thick concrete and steel containment vessel surrounds the reactor vessel. This containment system is designed to keep any radioactive material from being released into the surrounding environment.

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union suffered a partial meltdown, resulting in an explosion. There was no concrete and steel containment system at Chernobyl, so radioactive material was released directly into the atmosphere.

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown in 1979. This plant did have a concrete and steel containment unit, which remained intact. So, release of radioactive material in that incident was minimal.
See Demonstration Video : CNN Video 3 - Melt Down
The earthquake and tsunami
Three of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors were already shut down for inspection prior to the earthquake and tsunami. The three reactors that were in operation shut down automatically in a matter of seconds when the quake struck.

Even though the control rods were fully inserted to slow the fission chain reaction to a stop, the reactor was still extremely hot. This is known as decay heat, which will be present for months or even years. Cool water is still needed to keep the reactor fuel from overheating and possibly melting.

When the earthquake struck and the Fukushima Daiichi reactors shut down, the water pumps lost power. Emergency diesel generators began to power the pumps. However, the tsunami that soon followed damaged the diesel generators. The pumps then operated on emergency battery power, which lasted for 8 hours before being exhausted.
The water pumps shut down, and workers at the plant were left with no effective way to continue to cool the reactors and prevent the fuel from melting.

The explosions
It's still unclear exactly what happened, but what is certain is that several explosions rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the earthquake and tsunami.

The first explosion occurred in the reactor No. 1 building on Saturday, March 12. A second explosion occurred on Monday, March 14, at reactor No. 3. A third explosion occurred early Tuesday, March 15, at reactor No. 2.

While these explosions caused significant damage to the exterior buildings that house the reactors, it was unclear if the concrete and steel containment vessels suffered any damage.

Officials in Japan say the explosions at the three reactors were likely caused by a buildup of hydrogen gas, which is the highly flammable, lighter-than-air gas used in the Hindenburg.


One CNN contributor suggests that some of the zirconium fuel casings in the reactor may have burst. The zirconium can react with water to produce zirconium oxide and hydrogen. When this occurs, the hydrogen gas needs to be vented. As the hydrogen is vented and encounters oxygen in the surrounding air, the two can recombine explosively.

Another theory suggests that radiation causes water in the reactor to separate into hydrogen and oxygen. Normally, these gases would be carried away to a re-combiner that would turn them into water. But, with the lack of water circulation, the hydrogen built up until it had to be vented into the area of the building above the reactor. When enough hydrogen built up, the explosion occurred.
See Demonstration Video : CNN Video 4 - Explosion
Fire
Japanese officials say fire was discovered in a storage pond used for spent nuclear fuel rods in the reactor No. 4 building on Tuesday, March 15.

On Wednesday, March 16, officials with Tokyo Electric and Power reported the discovery of a second fire in the northeastern corner of the same reactor building.

Reactor No. 4 is one of the three reactors shut down for inspection when the earthquake and tsunami hit. However, nuclear fuel was still present in the building in the storage pond.
See Demonstration Video : CNN Video 5 - Exposed Fuel Rods
These fuel rods are not within the concrete and steel containment system that houses the reactor vessel. CNN contributors warn that a fire in the spent fuel storage pond could spread radioactive material directly into the surrounding environment.


How bad is 'bad'?
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) developed the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale to identify the severity of incidents involving nuclear energy.

Chernobyl was a level 7 accident, the highest level, denoting a "major accident."

Three Mile Island was classified a category 5, which is an "accident with wider consequences."

The IAEA is not yet rating the incident in Japan on the INES scale.
image source:http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646025.html

How much is 'too much'?
Radiation is invisible. You cannot taste it, smell it or feel it. It's not possible to directly measure the amount of radiation exposure a person has had. When you see people with Geiger counters checking a site like Fukushima Daiichi, they're measuring contamination, which generally refers to actual radioactive particles.

There are four main types of ionizing radiation:

--Alpha particles: relatively heavy, cannot penetrate human skin or clothing, but can be harmful if they get into the body in another manner.

--Beta radiation: can cause skin injury and is harmful to the body internally.

--Gamma rays: high-energy invisible light that can damage tissue and is most dangerous to humans.


--X-rays: also high-energy invisible light that can damage tissue and is very dangerous to humans.

Levels of radiation exposure:

--An average person receives about 3.1 millisieverts per year from natural sources.

--A person in the U.S. typically receives a total of 6.2 millisieverts because of medical diagnostic procedures and other man-made sources of radiation.

--A chest X-ray delivers a dose of about .02 millisieverts of radiation.

--A CT scan to the abdomen delivers about 8 millisieverts of radiation.
--Japanese officials say they had measured radiation rates of up to 400 millisieverts per hour between reactor units No. 3 and No. 4, according to the IAEA.


Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/03/world/interactive.nuclear.japan/index.html?hpt=C2
CNN, Britannica, IAEA, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Saturday, March 12, 2011

E-mail Etiquette

• Pay attention to the tone of your emails. If it is of a sensitive nature, consider asking someone to proof-read it before sending it out.

• Proof-read your emails, including the distribution list before you send them out

• If you cc: another person’s manager, you should also cc: your own manager

• Set the sequence of recipients deliberately, in order or rank or importance

• Avoid emails in ALL CAPS – they can be interpreted as “SHOUTING”. Instead, you may emphasize words using italics or underline.

• Avoid over-use of abbreviations to ensure clear communications

• Choose your email subject deliberately to accurately reflect the contents of the email. This subject will probably be used later to identify the contents of the email, so make sure it is relevant.

• Anyone who is to take action based on your email should be placed in the TO: field and not in the CC: field

• If you are expecting a response, action, or deliverable, consider that you provide a deadline or expectation of when you are looking for the response or, if you can afford to, ask them to provide an expected delivery timeframe

• Follow up in a timely manner – if you give a deadline, but don’t follow right away if it is missed, then it gives the impression that there is no urgency.

• Pay attention to the distribution list and what is being asked before deciding between using Reply-to-all vs. Reply. For example, if someone is asking for information or confirmation from a group of people, others may not want to receive copies of everyone’s reply.

• If you are upset, don’t vent your frustrations or retort by email. Emails have a way of getting around. Take time to cool off first, and then try to work through it by phone or in-person rather than email. It helps to be able to read body language and hear intonations to understand the intent behind the words.

• If an email request sent to you needs to go to someone else, you still need to send a reply. Ideally, you may want to contact the “correct” party first to ensure that they’ll be able to handle the request. Then, in your response to the requester, explain what you’ve done and introduce them to the party that will service their request, copying that party on the response. This provides a clear email trail for the hand-off.

• Once your email leaves your Outbox, you can’t get it back. However, you have the option to configure Outlook to send your emails out immediately upon hitting send or for your emails to sit in your Outbox first, and then get sent out according to regular intervals. The latter would allow you a chance to stop an email and edit it again before it goes out, provided you do so within the specified cycle.

• When sending emails to individuals or small groups within a project team, in order to avoid sensitivities around “who gets copied on what”, if you want to create more visibility, then you can create a distribution list for the project and send to the list instead. This way, you’ll avoid questions about “why did you copy my manager/MD/this other group/etc.”, while still giving visibility to the whole project team.

• Salutations beginning with “Dear” can create a very formal tone, unless used in “Dear All,” or similar circumstances.

• When sending to a list of people, you can use a greeting that helps to indicate how that particular group of recipients was identified. Examples include: “ITD Managing Directors,” “Symphony Reps,” “PowerPad PM Team,” etc.

• Generally, it is a good idea to address the party/parties to whom the email is directed (to have a salutation), rather than leaving it implicit. This is especially true if you have people on the CC: list, to help avoid confusion about who the email is directed to. Omitting the salutation altogether gives the email a more informal, “quick reply” feel which may be better suited to individual 1-1 email chains that flow like a conversation.

• Email isn’t the only communication channel available. Don’t be afraid to pick up the phone to call someone if a discussion is warranted, the topic is sensitive, the issue is urgent, or the person isn’t responding. You can also consider sending an email first, then following it up with a phone call so that the other party has a chance to look at the email for context/reference.

Friday, February 11, 2011

ေဖဖ၀ါရီ ၁၃

ဒီေန ့မွာမွ ငါ ကဗ်ာမေရးျဖစ္ရင္
ငါ့ေသြးငါေဖာက္ထုတ္ပစ္မယ္
ေက်းဇူးကန္းတဲ့ ေခြးရူးရမ္းရဲ့ေသြးမ်ိဳး
ငါ့ကိုယ္တြင္း စီးဆင္းမခံႏိုင္ဘူး။

ဘာေန ့မို ့လို ့့လဲမေမးနဲ ့
ေဟာဒီေန ့ ေဖဖ၀ါရီတဆယ့္သံုး
“အမ လိမ္မေျပာရ” ဆိုတဲ့ ျမားတစ္စင္း
ေျမကမၻာကို ခ်ဥ္းနင္း၀င္ေရာက္ခဲ့တာ..။

ခၽြန္ျမထက္ရွတဲ့ အဲဒီျမားက
အသက္ရွင္ခ်ိန္နဲ ့့အမွ်
ငါတို ့ႏိုင္ငံ
ငါတို ့လူမ်ိဳး
ငါတို ့တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ အတြက္တဲ့
“တကယ္ပဲအသက္နဲ ့လဲလို ့
ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡခံကာၾကံစည္” ထိုးေဖာက္ခဲ့တယ္။

ေန ့မအား ညမနား
စာအုပ္ပံုေတြၾကားမွာ
တကၠသိုလ္ပရ၀ုဏ္မွာ
ဟႏြိဳင္မွာ
ဂ်ပန္မွာ
ဘန္ေကာက္မွာ
ရိုးမေတာေတာင္ေတြမွာ
လန္ဒန္မွာ
ပင္လံုမွာ
လက္ရံုး ႏွလံုး
အားလံုးအားလံုး ရွိရွိသမွ်
အိတ္သြန္ဖာေမွာက္
မီးယန္းကုန္ ရိုးေက်ခန္း ၾကိဳးပန္း
အင္ပါယာတခုကို ေန၀င္ေစခဲ့ျပီး
ငါတို ့ကို လတစင္းေပးခဲ့တယ္။

ဘုန္းမီးေနလေတာက္ပ
အားလံုးကၾကည္ညိဳျမတ္ႏိုး
ရာထူးအာဏာမိုးၾကိဳးထက္ေနေပမယ့္
ခုိင္မတ္တည္ၾကည္ ေက်ာက္စိုင္ ေက်ာက္သား
သံမဏိအလား ကိုယ္က်င့္တရား
ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္နဲ ့ ႏိုင္ငံသားတို ့ဘ႑ာ
သဲတပြင့္ေသာ္မွ
ကိုယ္က်ိဳးအတြက္ မသံုးခဲ့ဘူး။

“ငါမလိုခ်င္ဘူး
ဖဆပလ သြားလႉခိုင္းလိုက္” …။

လမ္းတ၀က္
ကားပ်က္ေတာ့လည္း
“ေျခက်င္ေလွ်ာက္တာေပါ့ကြာ”..။

ျမင့္ျမတ္ေသာေသနာပတိတစ္ဦးရဲ့
အထူးနံက္စာက
ပဲျပဳတ္နဲ ့နံျပား ….။

ခ်စ္ခင္ျမတ္ႏိုးသူျဖစ္ေသာ္ျငား
“ခင္ဗ်ားျမင္းလွည္းနဲ ့ သြားပါ”….။

ဆာေလာင္လြန္းေသာ ရံုးဆင္းညေနစာ
မ်က္ႏွာပူ လိပ္ျပာမလံုခဲ့ေသာ အပါးေတာ္ျမဲ ။

“စီးပြားေရးလုပ္တဲ့ ငနဲေတြဆီက ဘာမွမယူဘူး”
ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း..
ငါးမူးတန္းေတာင္ အႏိုင္ႏိုင္…။

ဟိုမွာေအးတယ္ကြဲ ့
“အေႏြးထည္ပါရဲ့လား”
စာနာေလးစား
‘ရွိ’ နဲ ့ ‘ပါ’ ေျပာင္းေမး
သူတပါးေပးတဲ့
အဲဒီေလာင္းကုဒ္ၾကီးနဲ ့
တကမၻာလံုးက
ခန္ ့ျငား ေလးစားခဲ့တယ္..။

ခုေတာ့လည္း
ေက်းဇူးမသိသူ ေက်းဇူးေမ့သူထက္
ေက်းဇူးကန္းသူက ပိုမ်ား
သူ ့အရိပ္ကိုခို
သူခုတ္ထြင္ရွင္းလင္းေပးခဲ့တဲ့ေျမေပၚေလ်ာက္
သူေဖာက္ခဲ့တဲ့လမ္းကိုနင္း
သူေဆာက္ခဲ့တဲ့အိမ္မွာေန
သူစိုက္တဲ့အပင္ကအသီးကိုစား
သူထားခဲ့တဲ့ရတနာမ်ားစြာကိုသံုး
သူေၾကာင့္ လူတလံုး သူတလံုးျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကျပီး
စံုးလံုးကန္းနားပင္းေဒ၀ဒတ္တသင္းက
သူ ့အလင္းကို မိွန္ေစခ်င္သတဲ့။

ေအး
မင္းတို ့လိုေကာင္ေတြကို အျပတ္ေျပာမယ္
ပုပ္အဲ့ညစ္ထပ္
အေပါစားလုပ္ဇာတ္ေတြနဲ ့ေတာ့
သူ ့ရဲ့ သမိုင္းမွန္ အမွန္တရား
ဖံုးလႊမ္းမထားႏိုင္ဘူး
အာဇာနည္မ်ိဳးအစစ္မို ့
တို ့အားလံုးခ်စ္တယ္ေဟ့။

ေသာင္းတိုက္ကိုထိန္လင္း
ရိုးေျဖာင့္ျမင့္ျမတ္ဂုဏ္သတင္း
ေဟ့…ေလညွင္းမလိုဘူးကြ
ငါတို ့ရဲ့အမ်ိဳးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္
လြတ္လပ္ေရးဖခင္
တို ့အားလံုးရဲ့ ေက်းဇူးရွင္
ေအာင္ဆန္းဆိုတာ ဘယ္လိုလူစား
တို ့အားလံုးသိတယ္။

ရင္ဘတ္မွာ ကမၼည္းတင္
ႏွလံုးသားမွာထြင္းထု
သူ ့ရဲ့ေက်းဇူး
ဒီေန ့မွာမွ ငါတို ့ ဥဒါန္းမက်ဴးၾကရင္
ငါတို ့့ေသြး ငါတို ့ေဖာက္ထုတ္ပစ္မယ္
ေက်းဇူးကန္းတဲ့ ေခြးရူးရမ္းရဲ့ေသြးမ်ိဳး
ငါ့တို ့ကိုယ္တြင္း
ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ စီးဆင္းေစမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။
(ျခိမ့္ထက္)