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“Monotony” by Constantine P. Cavafy 🇬🇷 (29 Apr 186329 Apr 1933)
Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
One monotonous day is followed
by another monotonous, identical day. The same
things will happen, they will happen again—
the same moments find us and leave us.
A month passes and ushers in another month.
One easily guesses the coming events;
they are the boring ones of yesterday.
And the morrow ends up not resembling a morrow anymore.