THE PLANTERS OF LAMPPOSTS THAT CUT TREES

  

   A man felt healthy in despite of breathing the polluted air from the city because there was a tree over his window. All the years it renewed itself and all the nights the man had filtered air for his rest.

    But in a morning, the man woke up with a sound of chainsaw. He opened the window of his apartment and saw men prepared to cut the tree. And then the man screamed:

    -Don’t do that!

    The man that held the chainsaw argued:

    -This tree isn’t inside your lot.

    The man answered:

    -It isn’t inside your lot too.

    The man holding the chainsaw prepared his tool and said:

    -We cut trees but we are in service of a company that plants lampposts.

    And the man from the window, thought:

    -They haven’t reason, but they act like they had.

  (Osmar Batista Leal) 

"Os plantadores de postes que derrubavam árvores" , versão desta fábula em português está no livro A PERSEVERANÇA DO TATU à venda no CLUBE DE AUTORES ou com o autor.