Monotony

by

Constantine Cavafy


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.


(1908)



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