To make my difficult life secure
I’ll strictly limit business to the basics
up there in the Bank of the Future.
Substantial assets I doubt exist.
And I’ve begun to fear the first crisis —
suddenly payments will cease.
From: Cavafy, C. P. and Van Dyck, Karen, “The Bank of the Future” in Dibur: Literary Journal (Poetic Currency: A Poetry Dossier), Issue 5, Spring 2018.
(https://arcade.stanford.edu/dibur/poetic-currency-poetry-dossier#dibur-v5-toc)
Date: 1897 (original in Greek); 2018 (translation in English)
By: Constantine Peter Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) (1863-1933)
Translated by: Karen Van Dyck (1961- )
From Troubles of The World 