Learn languages’ grammar

. . . this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don’t like, and that way something bad won’t fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn’t work there are other ways, and if they don’t work don’t feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn’t fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?

Girl – Jamaica Kincaid

Buồn trông cửa bể chiều hôm
Thuyền ai thấp thoáng cánh buồm xa xa
Buồn trông ngọn nước mới sa
Hoa trôi man mác biết là về đâu
Buồn trông nội cỏ rầu rầu
Chân mây mặt đất một màu xanh xanh
Buồn trông gió cuốn mặt duềnh
Ầm ầm tiếng sóng kêu quanh ghế ngồi

The tale of Kieu – Nguyen Dinh Chieu