Whatever frightened you, whatever you thought
might happen someday, is not happening now.

This is only a test so we can be sure
we can tell you when we think it’s happening

before it does or at last no later than
simultaneously. What you should do

(when you hear the official sound we’re about to make
at almost any moment) is to listen

as closely as you can, then tell yourself
This is what it’s going to sound like

When it might happen. You’ll remember how 
to hear yourself thinking if it ever does.