Do you remember the first time you put your arm around mine

as we walked down the street? Was it after dancing with Shawn and David at the Blue Monk? I think it was. Remember the second time? We got dinner at Trattoria Aroma. We talked of old age, family, death, amidst a wonderful meal together. You got the pappardelle, I got pizza. I should have gotten […]

At the Pink

A backwards glance[may be the last glimpse of you]of you in your faux furred flannelautumnal activewearwalking away fromthe steps ofthe old pinkas I rolled towardsmy corner of homemy be all I have to look back uponwhen I think upon the last time I saw you “I love you; and please don’t die before we see […]

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 […]

We were trying to have a good time.

He wastrying to deal withburied familial tiesslowly beingunearthed.Support him.Deal with,process,analyze,respond toher text.Protect yourself.A moral dilemma.Do no harm unto others.Where will that lead 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