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[Aldo Matteucci <aldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Luis BORGES

WAKING UP

Daylight leaks in, and sluggishly I surface
from my own dreams into the common dream
and things assume again their proper places
and their accustomed shapes. Into this present
the Past intrudes, in all its dizzying range-
the centuries-old habits of migration
in birds and men, the armies in their legions
all fallen to the sword, and Rome and Carthage.

The trappings of my day also come back:
my voice, my face, my nervousness, my luck.
If only Death, that other waking up,
would grant me a time free of all memory
of my own name and all that I have been!
If only morning meant oblivion!
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Aldo Matteucci
61, Ludlam Cr.
LOWER HUTT 6009
NEW Zealand
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