'Bloodline for a share'

(Baonghean) - You're using an idiom inappropriately again. In my opinion, this should be called 'blood ties leading to a share'.

"Father Nguyen Dinh Thuc incites parishioners."

- Do you think I have the potential to become a poet, Uncle Dang?

- You have all the qualities to become a great poet, you just lack the poetry itself!

- Can one be a poet without poetry, Uncle?

- That's great! So you think every "investor" has capital?

- Are you saying I'm "getting a share of the inheritance"?

- You're using the idiom inappropriately. In my opinion, this should be called "catching an enemy empty-handed"!

- So, what should I do after becoming a poet, uncle?

- Write poetry!

But I don't know how to write poetry!

- Just write whatever you like; your job is to transcribe it onto paper.

What if people don't understand?

- Well, you've revealed the qualities of a great poet. Poetry is meant to be felt, not understood. The poetry of a great author certainly doesn't need to be understood! The more difficult a poem is to understand, the more profound it becomes. That's what people call the scholarly school of poetry!

- But…

But what else?

- I'm having second thoughts. While everyone else is striving to become this or that wealthy, or at least to own a house... in society, I suddenly have this crazy idea of ​​becoming a poet! Will people think I'm insane?

Do you know how many poets our country has?

- Well, I wasn't invited to "Vietnam Poetry Day," so how would I know!

- Did that day ever come?

- It was just held on the full moon of the first lunar month, it was spectacular!

- How wide is it?

- It got to the point where one airport had to halt takeoffs for 15 minutes to avoid colliding with… poetry!

- Are they still attaching what they call poetry to balloons and releasing them into the sky?

- Still!

- Will they be releasing religious poems this year like last year?

- Even worse, they dared to alter the poems of the great poet Nguyen Du. The imagery and authorship were completely mismatched, and the spelling was rampant.

- By doing that, they're polluting the entire environment of poetry!

- Yes, the pollution was very severe, but thankfully no innocent children died. Therefore, there was no need for compensation like with FMS!

- By the way, I heard there are still some problems with the FMS compensation case?

Yes, the inventory figures and the self-declared figures differ by as much as two times!

- How could something so strange happen?

- Well, that's the result of that superficial, cursory approach.

- I heard that some people outside the affected area are also demanding compensation?

- It's just a group of gullible people, incited to file lawsuits... in a neighboring province!

Who instigated this?

- It's still the same father!

Is he a fisherman?

- Are not?

- Was he directly affected or harmed by FMS?

- No!

- If it's not related, why would you encourage people to sue?

- It's like trying to become a poet without having any poems!

- Is he a poet too?

- Not a poet, but perhaps… I can ask for forgiveness!

- Well, he also fought the war empty-handed, didn't he?

- You're using an idiom inappropriately again. In my opinion, this should be called "blood ties" or "sharing a piece of the pie."

Dung & Dang