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Just waking up, and

A strange fact breaks

The crust of my sleep

The motto of our State –

As I try to get myself out of bed

All its ironies roll around my brain:

ORTA RECENS QUAM PURA NITES

It proclaims.

In my half-woke state

As I stumble to the shower

I make a smørgasbord of translations

While I wash

So, reader

– take your pick:

1. Having just been lit, already how fiercely you blaze…

2. Fuck, it’s only just dawn, yet how your fires yearn…

3. So young at heart, yet how vicious your flames…

4. Having just got up, how ready you are to burn

When this strangely clear blue sky

Hoists up it sun and does its midday belt

Then everything seems set to fry

Not just the bush around us

but the whole damn world.