100% not Borges. The story of this particular poem is kind of weird... it basically wrote itself. http://www.reelyredd.com/instantes-pick-more-daisies-who-wro

100% not Borges. The story of this particular poem is kind of weird... it basically wrote itself. http://www.reelyredd.com/instantes-pick-more-daisies-who-wrote-what.htm http://www.reelyredd.com/instantes-pick-more-daisies-who-wro... The original version was a (prose) piece published in Reader's Digest in the '50s. Then people started changing it here and there, and it coalesced into the "Instantes" we all know and love/love to hate. As opposed to "Instantes" Borges' writings are notoriously devoid of pathos. He even said he regretted writing his famous sonnet "I have committed the greatest sin/ that a man can commit. I haven't been happy" when overcome by grief over the death of his mother.