Moments (Spanish: Instantes) is the title of a text wrongly attributed to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
[1][2] The first known version of the text was authored by American humorist and cartoonist Don Herold, and published by College Humor before 1935, or perhaps early that year, under the title "I'd Pick More Daisies".
I would eat more ice cream and less bran.Herold published a revised version in the October 1953 number of Reader's Digest.
One of the most spread Spanish versions wrongly attributed to Borges starts with the following verses: Spanish versions with the shape of a poem were wrongly attributed to Borges by literary magazines like Mexican Plural (May 1989, pages 4–5)[8] and books (such as Elena Poniatowska's "Todo México", page 144).
[8] In December 2005, Irish pop singer Bono, read in Spanish some of the lines of the poem on Mexican TV show Teletón México 2005 and attributed them to the "Chilean poet Borges.
"[9] The attribution error was so extended that even the poet and scholar Alastair Reid translated one of the Spanish versions into English under the belief that it was a work from Borges.