I can’t tell

whetherI don’t trust youorI don’t trust myself around you

It’s fun

to play a happy mustache with language

fact

is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense

There are no members in the set

zero The fact that there is a set called[zero]Proves & Bankruptsthistheoryobservationfact There are zero members of the set[zero]Nothing is a member of the set[zero] zero≠nothing so what is zero?what is nothing?

Is the real question

where does the world endand your imagination begin?or,where does your imagination endand the world begin?

In my dream I was lost

unable to tell one street from the nextinside from outthis place was not this placeI think I was myself, but who’s to know

deal me out

I can’t stack the odds amidst this chaos

at a loss of words

confused at the implicationsof my utteranceswhat is the value of this pageof these wordswhat do they mean?I don’t knowdo you?

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