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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Crazy Lady of Jiao Ba Lu</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jiao Ba Lu is an ancient street, <br>The cobbles are overgrown, <br>A few mean dwellings still bar their doors<br>The others are falling down; <br>They say a woman who lives down there<br>Is three parts gone to the moon, <br>While children mutter a curse, or pray<br>When she stumbles out in the gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Gao Fang Fang has pure white hair<br>That blows like a ghost in the breeze, <br>Her eyes are wild, and she never smiles, <br>And she often falls to her knees; <br>She falls to her knees with a cry of pain<br>At visions she only sees, <br>And wails at night when the moon is bright, <br>Or shadows form through the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the hearth of her meagre home<br>Is a picture of Mao Zedong, <br>And she is there in the picture too<br>A girl with an armband on, <br>A girl with the light of reforming zeal<br>That shines from her hard black eyes, <br>Her hair tucked under a forage cap<br>With the rest of ‘The Helmsman's' lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">D'eng Xiao Bei was her only love, <br>So young in those distant days, <br>But he was the son of a landlord who<br>Was threatened to mend his ways, <br>They took his land and his money too<br>And cast him out in the rain, <br>While D'eng Xiao Bei hid his head in sin, <br>And cried for his father's pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one dread day in the neighborhood<br>The Red Guards came in force, <br>So Gao Fang Fang put her armband on<br>But D'eng just hid in the house; <br>They dragged him out as a traitor then, <br>And put him up on the stage, <br>But D'eng Xiao Bei had nothing to say<br>To the Guards in their rabid rage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tied his arms, they made him kneel, <br>They beat him with sticks and a club, <br>‘Your father, he was a landlord pig, <br>So you are a turtle's egg! '<br>They tied a sign on his chest that said: <br>‘I love not the Chairman Mao! '<br>And tried to make him confess his sins; <br>They'd still be waiting now! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While others pelted with rocks and eggs<br>Fang Fang looked on with shame, <br>She'd loved Xiao Bei with a burning love, <br>But nothing was now the same, <br>Her comrades urged her to show her zeal<br>To punish the ‘running dog', <br>So she took a breath, picked up a rock<br>To fling at her one true love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rock was sharp, bitter and hard<br>And tore one eye from its core, <br>D'eng stared at her with his one good eye<br>As his blood seeped out on the floor, <br>Gao Fang Fang gasped, then looked aghast<br>And paled at the thing she'd done, <br>Then watched him die as the others cried: <br>‘Long life to Mao Zedong! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fang Fang went home like one deranged, <br>And flung the band from her wrist, <br>So soon, in front of the People's Court<br>She was termed a ‘revisionist! '<br>For ten long years in a prison cell<br>She wept and cried: ‘ Enough! '<br>But the years did nothing to soothe the pain<br>Of killing her one true love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still she lives at Jiao Ba Lu, <br>Alone, in the dark she cries<br>In a part of town that's coming down, <br>Just like ‘The Helmsman's' lies.<br>Those days have gone, but the lady wails<br>As she works away at the loom, <br>While the neighbours shake their heads and say: <br>‘She's three parts gone to the moon! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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A few mean dwellings still bar their doors
The others are falling down; 
They say a woman who lives down there
Is three parts gone to the moon, 
While children mutter a curse, or pray
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