You Can Hear It Any Way You Want

I know he’s from France

But it sounds fake

He sounds fake

And I have to be honest

About how I think he sounds

He sounds like

He’s doing

A bad French accent

And I can’t dismiss

How I perceive it

To sound

Listen, what comes together

In my mind

Is an unfiltered honest perception

Of something

And you can’t ask me

To take that—

That thing

That has value

Because of its purity

And strip it down

By applying all this

Other information to it

I’m not saying

He wasn’t good in the movie
I’m saying he sounded—

The way he sounded

Was distracting to me

Now, I don’t know what

The solution to that is

But I’m not going to say

It wasn’t distracting

Because it was

To me

I was distracted

And I’m allowed to be distracted

And if I’m distracted

Then I need to speak up

On behalf of other people

Who might also

Be distracted

I need to advocate for them

That’s my job

It’s not my job

To come up with answers

For how to make something

Less distracting

That’s the filmmaker’s job

Do you see what I’m getting at here?

Maybe make the character

I don’t know

Not French?

I don’t see why the character

Needs to be French

Just because he lives in Paris

And it’s a French movie

And his name is Henri

Which is really just Henry

Without the ‘H’

Why not say the ‘H?’

I found it very distracting

That they didn’t pronounce the ‘H’

I just have to be honest about that

If you’re going to put an ‘H’

In front of a name

You may as well say the ‘H’ otherwise—

I know that’s how it’s—

But I’m allowed to say

That I don’t think

It makes sense

So if the French language

Doesn’t make sense to me

I’m allowed to say that

I can say that

Please don’t tell me

Not to say things

Just because they don’t make sense

Because I’m not in charge of sense or nonsense

I’m in charge of looking at something

And saying—

This is what I think

And that’s what I did

And I thought he sounded fake

And I said that

And now you’re telling me

That I was wrong

But you’re not in charge of right and wrong

And neither am I

Nobody is

And that means—

Well that means

That basically

Everything is anarchy, but you know what?

So be it

Because we can’t go around policing

What people say about things

Can we?

Unless it’s slander

Or libel

Or plagiarism

But other than that

We just need to let people

Say what they want

And not jump all over them

When they’re, uh, not exactly—

Accurate

Because it’s all about

How you see it

And you might see it

Totally different

From the way I see it

And that’s okay

You can see it

And hear it

Any way

You want