“Babylon is nothing but an infinite game of chance”

Are we nothing but a brain
behind a mask?
If there was an
all-merciful God
there would be no hell
if there was an
Almighty plan
there would be no free will

if space is infinite
time is infinite
and language is infinitely productive
why do we
paradoxically-perpetually
deal with the finite?

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice