just a bit of physical reciprocation

I’ll settle for a fractionor an indefinite decimaljust help me out a bit pleaseI know we’re trying to help ourselvesbut we hurt each otherbut we make each other feel goodbut we want such different thingsbut we want the same thingI know you want meyou know I want youI know I want youyou know you want […]

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 feel stuck

in this modern stateseemsungrateful orignorantas self-absorbedas our addiction to petroleum.There’s some irony for you.I own a car.I have money.I have legs.Yet,stuckis the onlyword I findto describe how I feel.Maybe it’s the knowledge,the photographs,the clever marketing schemesencouraging you to“get away” from it all,offering somewhere else.Somewhere better.It’s all the same place.Just different.

This is bad

When was it,exactly,that I started believing people could beGoodagain? Was it after thefifth beer? Or after that shot ofwhatever the fuck? Or maybe it wassome other event,conversation,occurrence,marked by human interaction,rather thanostracized gulpsof self-prescribed medication. Well,it was definitely before I returned homealone. We are all here.Sharing this life,this time,this place. But the truth iswe are all […]

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