A bonus episode of Pandora, one of Burma's most celebrated poets, reciting her poem from "Khru Pyit [Anti-Snail] Launcher." This poetry anthology, Pandora's first, won the Myanmar National Literature Award in 2019.
Cannot escape from this point for a while yet
We enjoy traffic jams
Our daily life is our school lesson
Have a bathe and wash your clothes while it rains
Blow out and save your candles while the moon shines
Do business while waiting for the green light
We have all sorts of news in our arms
Eleven, Voice, Modern, Myanmar Times
What happened in Letpadaung Hill
What will happen to the mobile internet rate
Murder cases during the month
Hooligans wreaking havoc in downtown
The more horrible the news is, the more sensational it is, isn’ it Or to hang in your new big car
Here's sabe, zun, ngwe, shwe flowers
Still fresh though dipped in the water since last night
By the way thazin track is also damn fresh
Part 1, 2 and 3 are on hand if you'd like
What! thazin track is no flower
Let it be if you have no idea
Then what's your line, politics or economics
Then here's the draft Telecommunications Law
Or the Constitution is also available
Still on sale though printed long ago
Yet I don’t know whether it is still in good shape
The Foreign Investment Law is just released
Obtainable in Burmese and in English
We've got Burma maps and Yangon maps too
You can get lost even in your own regions and streets
And a roadmap will still be handy
Until it is replaced with a new one
Will you buy at least something, brother
You cannot escape from this traffic point for a while yet
At least, a Daw Suu Calendar
Or a fighting peacock flag
Just a souvenir
Pandora
10 Dec 2012
(Translated from the Burmese by the author, edited by Mg Tha Noe)
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