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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569202" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry: Ode To A Little Mouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ode To A Little Mouse<br>By Laijon Liu 20091009</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.'<br>- Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 2, scene 2, Line 40</div><div style="margin:10px 0">01<br>In my tiny room, there’s a little mouse<br>A New Yorker he is, a resident of Queens<br>He’s lonely like me and nameless he is<br>He works all the days to see who he really is<br>Oh, my heart cries for you, my little friend<br>This world too big and your life too frail<br>In my roommate rooms they set the clip traps<br>And in each corner they prepared your last meal<br>But you still, running wise and boring brave<br>To be a master of your own fate, not a slave! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">02<br>For that sweet cheese cake! You try to nose<br>For whole life among the rooms and traps<br>Oh dream of fulfillment, drives living purpose<br>That one day you may gain fat like those rats<br>But no, you are in my room, but I only have books<br>This is not a restaurant, nor subway tracks<br>And out there on street, too many wild cats<br>They are not house pets that live on diet food<br>So, you must be patient and do with what you have<br>For you haven’t met any girl mouse yet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">03<br>Oh, love for a little mouse? Too unreal! <br>How that 2-second intimacy can make you feel? <br>What’s after, still loneliness, emptiness, <br>Such state even human wail and gods pale<br>In this mice and rats crowded capital, <br>How many couples truly find their nest? <br>Once you were born into this cold world<br>Then you must walk and search alone<br>Btwn the walls, sneak in and out the pipes<br>And hoping to find your sweet cheese</div><div style="margin:10px 0">04<br>Go! You little mouse! Be smart and brave! <br>Don’t just hide in my tiny room<br>Even though you moved in here first<br>But your life is not staying here and starve<br>Even though I never wanted to trap you<br>Nor I’m too wicked to poison you<br>Still, you must go out and be stuffed<br>For all those trashes are waiting for you<br>And you might be luckier than me<br>Soon walk with a mouse next door in flowery forest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">05<br>Yes, you already used to be in this room<br>And I dare not to claim what I paid it’s mine<br>So all these years I let you stay in your corner<br>And marked the spot with a cookie each month<br>But it does not mean that I’ve accepted you<br>Or changed my mind to receive you as my pet<br>Mice and rats are not equal with dogs and cats<br>Not even people on earth obtain same rights<br>Maybe only in sleep or heavy drinks<br>So we can all be a big happy family</div><div style="margin:10px 0">06<br>How many times at night I wake up<br>Fearing you may sneak into my bed<br>And how many times I almost hit you<br>That you broke the law of this room<br>Even though I’m a guy that fears a mouse<br>But in madness men can march out for kill<br>And not to mention if I find girlfriend, God willing<br>Then I’d be forced to set poison and traps<br>Haven't you ever heard that in love<br>A woman is more jealous than death? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">07<br>Oh, you little mouse, sad and alone<br>All your life you search in hunger and fear<br>But tonight, you are so lucky<br>You’ve got a safe corner, no trap or death cookie<br>A poet observes you with his drink<br>And writes a few drunken verse in ink<br>Not for his love, not for any girl<br>But only for you, my roommate and companion<br>How are we two miserable creatures<br>Under same shelter, sharing same roof! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">08<br>Let’s enjoy this moment for a temporal rest<br>Before sunlight shoots into this tiny room<br>You little mouse has worked all night<br>Yet must get up in hurry for a weary road<br>Man labors from cell to cell<br>To chase his dream in tunnels of world<br>Mouse seeks from pipe to pipe<br>To look for his cheese in the hall of trap<br>And both come back in dust and dark<br>Till one day we must part for love or death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Note: <br>Thanks to Mr. Joe Poewhit, I searched Shakespeare's verse for this poem and add it for an intro.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laijon+Liu">Laijon Liu</a><div class=q>
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By Laijon Liu 20091009

'Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.'
- Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 2, scene 2, Line 40

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