“A month passes by and brings another month.
Easy to guess what lies ahead:
all of yesterday’s boredom.
And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”
Monotony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=96&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)
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