In my dream I could paint

the consequence more illustriousthan the originala glorious magnificent representation even I was shocked at theprecision of my depiction why was it youI chose to showmy fantastic achievement tois lost in my subconscious the circinate strokes were blacksurrounding a nucleic absenceset against an ominous backdrop I don’t knowwhy you were thereor whether you caredI don’t know […]

Man Pacing Around the Subway Station

I never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out of nothingI never cheated no one out […]

To be or not to be.

I am, therefore I be.I be bein’.I be.I will not be.I don’t want to not be.I am scared of not being.I be scared of not being.I can’t not be,Otherwise I am not.I am.I am.Someday I will not.You are.I am.Now we are.Let’s be.Because someday we won’t be.

Isolation is unachievable

Isolation is unavoidableIf you remove yourself from a placeyou are not therebut you are alwayshereif you are standing on a rooftopand your alarm clock goes offdo you wake down? I want to feel foreign fabricsI want to obliterateI want to preserveI want to be able to seeeverythingwhen I close my eyes I hope I feeleverythingwhen […]

I cannot bring myself

to form a proper poemabout your irregular pap smearand the possibility of your contraction ofHPV.You’re scared.I’m scared.You’re more scared.Fuck.Fuck.Stay positive;comforting.Be comforting.Fucking shit.Hold it together.Hold on to eloquence.Need a drink.Need a smoke.No.Need to hold you close.It’s not about me.It’s not about me.But I’m here.I need to stay here.Need to stay okay.Need to be okay.Need to help […]

enjamb that lin

eenjamb this linepaint a metaphorI just didrecognize the arbitrariness of wordsunderstand that utterance is not iconic of meaningplay a song in your headplay a song on this pagethis is upside downdn ǝpᴉsʇɥƃᴉɹ sᴉ sᴉɥʇI am omniscient in this notebookuntil you read itthen you take my omnipotencyand I am impotentuntil you take my hand

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