twenty

always be afraid
of the small things

consider the toothache
whose physical mass

is utterly negligible:
the heat

turns inward on itself
like a self-detonating star

so too Drastus
and his friends if he has any

songs that attempt to hide themselves
in almost every way they can

open palms pushing the camera away
if there were one, which there isn't

prayers to no-one
more pious than a billion decades of the rosary

loud amplifiers in naturally soundproofed
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