No time for

extracurricular
ink-wasting
           It’s almost March.
Holy shit.
It’s hard to write poetry
when you can barely
keep up with your own
obligations.
Plan for the future,
provide for now.
                     just buy everything in cans
no time for anything else
STOP
slow down
make sure your teeth aren’t going to fall out
and just chill out
take a moment to reflect

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