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This page invokes religious self-sacrifice and named identities in a terse, unsettled way that feels closer to notebook inquiry than finished poem.

The scan-backed spellings and names keep the page jagged and documentary. It circles martyrdom, faith, and history while leaving the moral comparison intentionally spare.

A spare, documentary-feeling handwritten page that circles religious self-sacrifice through phonetically spelled names. It records a martyrdom and its limit - 'Dik Twan Dok / Budist- set / himsesf Afire / in Vietnam; / whose HEART wouldn't / burn' - the capitalized 'HEART' marking the one thing the fire could not consume, an echo of the Vietnamese monk whose heart famously survived his self-immolation. The remaining lines stand as bare invocations across faith lines, 'Yo Tik Tong Bueu / Catholic' and a closing 'Vin Trong', leaving the moral comparison deliberately unstated. The name spellings, including 'himsesf', are phonetic and uncertain and are preserved exactly as scanned; the lower-right 'Vin Trong' is an approximate reading.