{"id":5743,"date":"2022-08-30T06:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2022-08-30T06:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:38","slug":"746-a-foolish-man-ann-christine-tabaka-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/746-a-foolish-man-ann-christine-tabaka-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"746 | A Foolish Man &#8211; Ann Christine Tabaka, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5744 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-746-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"paiting by ithaca 746\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-746-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-746-200x156.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-746.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by John Hacking, The Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\nA Foolish Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Legend tells of a foolish man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He stands before himself,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he stands before no one else,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">answers to none.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A wake of destruction in his path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His calloused fingers match his calloused heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black streaks of loathing and desire<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">overturning any evidence of compassion,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">if ever compassion drew a breath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seeking unattainable dreams,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he axes down the forest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to make room for his redemption,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">senselessly destroying all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Barren wastelands stand,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">where once green woodlands thrived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Towering edifices of aspired wealth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">reign over impoverished hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lives crushed under the weight of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a headstrong need to overmaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Razing all that is beautiful and right<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to obtain a fool\u2019s portion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has crept into our world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he lives among us now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ann Christine Tabaka<\/strong> (USA)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>* Published by Atunis Galaxy Anthology 2023, Demer Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by John Hacking, The Netherlands A Foolish Man Legend tells of a foolish man. He stands before himself, he stands before no one else, answers to none. A wake of destruction in his path. His calloused fingers match his calloused heart. Black streaks of loathing and desire overturning any evidence of compassion, if ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}