#adoxography

Prompt claiming for The Flash Fest, "Adoxography" hosted by @rynrising44 is ending tonight!

Adoxography- (noun) Fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects “Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things” “adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers” type of: authorship, composition, penning, writing, the act of creating written works.

This flash fest is focused on beautiful and trivial words from a multitude of languages.

https://delia.thecomicseries.com/

they cut ties, they cut ribbons

they cut hair, they cut skin

and they do so by uniting their blades.

they bring themselves together,

only to tear others apart.

and yet we call them a tool.

not a weapon, despite them being dual blades,

capable of cutting through paper and skin alike.

a tool.

humans are destructive.

our guns, our swords, our cannons,

we call them weapons.

we have weapons to get what we want, whether it be protection, food, or revenge.

we use them as tools.

our knives, our thumbtacks, our scissors,

capable of stabbing, piercing, cutting,

we call them tools.