God, go away!

Indigo got a kick out of the "inflation" :-)

有个落魄的读书人，家里断粮多日，妻子哭哭啼啼，自己也饿得很难受。忽然想起观音庙里有个铜铸佛像，估摸可以换得几升白米。于是他便爬入庙里，正要伸手拿佛像，又恐神佛会责怪他，于是他便在墙上写了几句诗，才把佛像拿走，这几句诗是：

佛是西天佛，
铜是本地铜。
请佛西天去，
救我一时穷！

There was once a very poor student, and he had run out of food for quite some time now,
his wife cried all day, and he himself was also quite hungry. He then suddenly remembered that the Goddess of Mercy's temple had a copper statue of a god, selling it could earn himself a ton of rice, and so he crawled into the temple, he was just about to take it, and thought the gods would punish him, so he wrote a poem on the temple walls, and took the statue of the god and left. The poem went like this:

Gods are the Gods of the west,
Copper is our copper,
God, please go back to the west,
and save me from inflation!

Update on Nov. 17, 2007

There was once a very poor student, and he had run out of food for quite some time now,
his wife cried all day, and he himself was also quite hungry. He then suddenly remembered that the Goddess of Mercy's temple had a copper statue of a god, selling it could earn himself a ton of rice. and so he crawled into the temple, he was just about to take it, and was afraid that the Buddha would punish him, so he wrote a poem on the temple walls, and took the statue of the Buddha and left. The poem went like this:

Buddha is the Buddha of the west,
Copper is our copper,
Buddha, please go back to the west,
and save me from inflation!