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Song of the Pipa  
'Both adrift
at the end of the world, we meet,
but why
do we need to know each other?'


-- Tang poet, Bai Juyi, in his poem 'The Song of the Pipa' which tells of the displaced poet's encounter with a faded courtesan on a river.
  ©Joseph Lai 2003