A car so dear

To own a car in Singapore
would be so very fine.
For to get across this fair Isle
is a marathon in time.

The public transport fare's so dear,

the ERP's sublime.

To know that while you're stuck in traffic
you were trying to avoid,

at least you wouldn't have to pay
the peak-hour rate

(now it's all the time)
of stalling in the cab
(you called? that's an extra $5) - 

lao ban, it's only double the old price.

To refrain from texting on commute,
while waiting in the jam,
to know that you're not on a train
(where you'd bestandingsquashedoneithersidebreathing
someone else's carbon-dioxide)
or a bus at going-home time.

To own a car in Singapore - 

A! Fine it seems to me!

The public transport fare's so dear,

the COE's sublime.

To pay an extra $100k,
what a boon it must be,
to rent a car priced a tenth of that -
ten years? Why, it's only half your salary.