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njamb this line
paint a metaphor
I just did
recognize the arbitrariness of words
understand that utterance is not iconic of meaning
play a song in your head
play a song on this page
this is upside down
dn ǝpᴉsʇɥƃᴉɹ sᴉ sᴉɥʇ
I am omniscient in this notebook
until you read it
then you take my omnipotency
and I am impotent
until 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