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Waiting for a coffee
“We wait quietly, as if it were certain that
something from the past will return –
though we know all things have ended,
and we drink our coffee slowly, gazing at the sea.”
C. P. Cavafy, Μέρες του 1908 (Days of 1908), 1917.
English translation by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard,
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1975.
