Charming Chinese Chap Chit-Chats Between Stops - Wot! Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Charming Chinese Chap Chit-Chats Between Stops - Wot!

Rating: 5.0


CHARMING CHINESE CHAP CHIT-CHATS
BETWEEN STOPS - WOT!

or

'ZENME YANG! '
('WHAT'S UP? ')

'Ahhhhhh you...Irish! '

'You not...Londonish? '

'I much like
the way your voice talks

& how the tongue of you
say my name

in that funny way! '

'It make
my eyes smiling

& laughter falling
out of my mouth.'

'You understand
what my mind is

...playing? '

'Ah...Woking! '

'My stop here! '

I like very much
chatting off your ears! '

'Zai- jian! '('Goodbye! ') I smiled
& then...he was gone.


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This gentle man dressed himself as an English gentleman(as if he were from a Monty Python sketch) everything except the bowler hat. He greatly enlivened the English language for me and made it a delight to me...I was sad when he got off at Woking and I continued on to Guildford.

* 'ZENME YANG! ' pronounced dzummah yahng.

* 'Zai- jian! ' pronounced zigh-jee-in

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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