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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 scan-backed proper names. It poses a martyrdom and its limit as a rhetorical question - 'Did Tuan Dok / Budist- set / him self Afire / in Vietnam; / whose HEART wouldn't / burn' - the capitalized 'HEART' marking the one thing the fire could not consume. The remaining lines stand as bare invocations across faith lines, 'Yo Tik Tong Bleu / Catholic' and a closing 'Div Tong', leaving the moral comparison deliberately unstated. This reading is provisional because the page is a mixed-band handwritten manuscript; only the clearly legible names and lines were retained, and the transliterated names ('Tuan Dok', 'Yo Tik Tong Bleu', 'Div Tong') are preserved exactly as scanned.