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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Endless Taxi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I staggered out the Monkey Ba<br>At three... or was it four? <br>I'd lost my watch and wallet there, <br>I'd not been there before, <br>But after drinks or three, I think<br>I wasn't seeing straight, <br>I only knew I'd smoked my last<br>So knew it must be late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I searched my pockets, plumbed the depths<br>And found a crumpled note, <br>A twenty kwai had ‘scaped my eye, <br>Thank god for kindly fate! <br>I had a choice of yi bao yan, <br>A pack of Xinanjiang, <br>Or I could grab a ‘jiao che' home<br>At a cost of shi yuan! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose the smokes, and spent the ten, <br>That left me ten to go, <br>I knew the cost to Xia Lv Pu<br>Should only be ten kwai, <br>I hailed a Yellow Jiao Che and<br>Fell in the open door, <br>The cabbie grunted ‘na li - ah', <br>I mumbled: ‘Xia Lv Pu! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My eyes were somewhat fuzzy<br>Rolling round my empty head, <br>I focused on the meter box, <br>Its numbers glowing red, <br>‘Shi er', it said, or twelve yuan, <br>That's when I sobered up; <br>Of course! Midnight! - the fares increase, <br>I didn't have enough! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We got to Xia Lv Pu too soon, <br>I shook my weary head, <br>And muttered ‘Ming Hang Lu, old chum, <br>Qu Ming Hang Lu, ' instead; <br>The cabbie looked me up and down, <br>Then shrugged and turned about, <br>And back we went to Ming Hang Lu, <br>The meter jumped about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At fifteen kwai we hit the Lu, <br>I muttered, ‘Qu da Xue, '<br>‘Cos that was where the campus was, <br>And where I'd find old Lou; <br>He'd surely loan me twenty kwai<br>To pay for the blasted car, <br>But then I realised... I'd left<br>Old Lou at the Monkey Ba.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I tapped the dash, and said: ‘Hao de! <br>Wo yao qu Jiang Xing Island, <br>The cabbie was looking murderous, <br>I sensed that he wasn't smiling; <br>They've got no sense of humour here, <br>They're all just money crazy, <br>But still he turned and gunned the cab, <br>The meter was looking hazy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By thirty kwai I'd lost the plot, <br>The Monkey Ba had closed, <br>Old Lou was nowhere to be seen, <br>I said: ‘Wo qu Hangzhou! '<br>He muttered something like ‘Xiagua! <br>Ni shi bendan, ' he said, <br>I flung the Xinanjiang at him, <br>Jumped out the cab, and fled! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So here I am, ten miles from home, <br>He's headed for ‘gang ting', <br>I think my luck is running out, <br>The police will run me in.<br>I wouldn't mind, a place to sleep<br>Would do me, I won't fret, <br>The only thing that bugs me is<br>I've got no cigarettes! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Glossary and pronunciation: <br>Ba - Bar. Twenty Kwai (Kwy) - 20 yuan <br>yi bao yan (ee bough yen) - one box cigarettes <br>Xinanjiang (See nan jang) - Brand of cigarettes<br>Jiao Che (Jou -as in ouch - Chuh) - Taxi<br>Shi yuan (Cher you ann) - 10 yuan.<br>Xia Lv Pu (She ah Luh Por) - a district in Wenzhou<br>na li - ah (narli-ah) where? The ‘ah' is Wenzhounese.<br>shi er (Cher aahh) - twelve. Ming Hang Lu (Meen Haang Lou) -<br>the name of a road. Qu - (chew) go to.<br>Qu da Xue (chew dar sure) - go to the University. <br>Hao de - (How duh) - Okay! Wo yao qu Jiang Xin -<br>(Wore yow - as in ouch - chew Jang Sheen) <br>I want to go to Jiang Xin Island. <br>Wo qu Hangzhou (Wore chew Hang-zoe) -<br>I want to go to Hangzhou - capital of Zhejiang Province, about <br>300 miles away. Xiagua (She ag wa) - idiot! <br>Ni shi bendan (Knee sir ben dan) - You're foolish! <br>gang ting (Garng Ting) - the police station.)</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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At three... or was it four? 
I'd lost my watch and wallet there, 
I'd not been there before, 
But after drinks or three, I think
I wasn't seeing straight, 
I only knew I'd smoked my last
So knew it must be late.

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