{"id":5873,"date":"2023-02-13T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2023-02-13T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:24:47","slug":"754-waiting-for-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/754-waiting-for-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"754 Waiting for the bus &#8211; Anna Keiko, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-754.jpg\" alt=\"ithaca 654\" width=\"261\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-754.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-754-200x159.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Painting by Mirek Kuzniar, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting for the bus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the bus.<br \/>\nMany busses pass by the station.<br \/>\nThey go to different places,<br \/>\nBut there is no bus to take me where I want to go.<\/p>\n<p>I am still waiting, from winter to spring.<br \/>\nNo one cares about the people waiting for the bus.<br \/>\nThey walk or they run.<br \/>\nI wait from dark till dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Trees hibernate and wake up,<br \/>\nSo, too, do the birds.<br \/>\nThe city has slept for thousands of years,<br \/>\nexcept a few stars stay awake.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know the distance to the place I want to go.<br \/>\nI keep waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Keiko<\/strong>, China<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nfrom: \u201e<strong>Absurd Nobility<\/strong><\/em> \u201c, Chinese-English<br \/>\nIndependently Poetry, Chile \u2013 USA, 2022<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Mirek Kuzniar, Germany &nbsp; Waiting for the bus &nbsp; I&#8217;m waiting for the bus. Many busses pass by the station. They go to different places, But there is no bus to take me where I want to go. I am still waiting, from winter to spring. No one cares about the people waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5874,"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\/5873"}],"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=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}