******Boast of Quietness*****
Writings of light
assault the darkness,
more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city
takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and my death,
I observe the ambitious
and would like to understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel,quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling,
we are all voices of the same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar,
a few portraits,
an old sword,
the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow,
I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable,
singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly,like
one who comes from so far away
he doesn't expect to arrive.
—Jorge Louis Borges
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