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Melodies XLIX; Brief Ballad From A Shadowed Place
"Now the inheritors of the broken cosmos will be
"the spawn of the Encroach, the Void, these three
"whose theme is their variations of bastardy---
"dust, haunted particles, and debris."
---Kermes Vermilio, The Vermillion Profanations
Their origin is this world, not some star
we can barely see because too far
away. Nothing can end their invasive spree:
dust, haunted particles, and debris.
They can take up tenure in your clothes;
or enter your flesh (often through your nose.
They want to bring you to agony:
dust, haunted particles, and debris.
What can a ghost really be
but the three-dimensional mimicry
performed in deceit by those ghastly three:
dust, haunted particles, and debris.
Starward
