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# The Raison D’Etre of a Bad Habit
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/bad-habit/
- Published: 2022-01-13T01:12:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:02.000Z
- Description: Some talk during movies. Others crack their knuckles, drink to excess, buy things they don’t need, make mountains out of molehills.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

Some talk during movies.  
Others crack their knuckles,  
drink to excess, buy things  
they don’t need, make  
mountains out of molehills.

I pick my nails. Especially  
at night, when my thoughts  
skip and scratch like a broken  
record and the branches  
at my window menace me:  
How else to turn off the noise?

At breakfast, my wife asks  
about the blood on my hands.  
I regale her with tales of ghosts  
I bludgeoned to death and how,  
while she slept, I domesticated  
a lion—just a few scratches!

Pretending not to notice my cuticles,  
she says, *I’m so proud of you, dear*.