Why not get tough enough to toss off those sources
hiding suffering inside with ‘the hell with it’?
Don’t waver, dawdle, and go soft taking it on, so ‘mego’
will stubbornly return and choke the life out of you.

All the trivial things floating this way and that:
don’t go inflating, puffing as if they’re all big deals.
Get over it all, the petty stuff is far too numerous,
just throw ‘em away quick with ‘the hell with it.’

When ‘mego’ drops or fades however little
one calms and cools down at least that much.
We save ourselves by knowing to ‘the hell with it’
until everyone is a master in its daily application.