Bad Hammer

Bad Hammer

by james bezerra

I don’t trust people

who use the word

“simulacrum”,

who invoke Hegel.

Which is odd;

I like having

a stiff drink

with a good Marxist,

adore the teenage-y angst of

a mustachioed Nietzschean,

I can even hang with

people who quote

Kierkegaard –

just not in the mornings

before I’ve had

my coffee.

But those simulacrumists

lodge a bur into my brain

like a grain of sand

in a sandwich.

I also dislike the use of the word “cacophony”

because it costs ten dollars

and doesn’t actually do a good job describing anything;

it’s a bad hammer.

How can you trust a guy

who listens to a bag of bolts roll down a staircase

and who chooses to use the word

“cacophonous” as if it’s good enough?

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