Must keep to schedule

cannot fall behinddon’t let your bodyor your desiresstop youor even slow you downwe have a curriculumestablished bysomeone or some peoplethat tell usthey have our best interests in mind

I’d like to go

somewhere elsesomewhere far awayI want to learn a new languageI want to play soccer againI want to write a better poem than this

Selfish thoughts

floating listlessly,meanderingthrough my mindpassing desiresunwarranted desiresto reclaimcertainty of meaninglessnessand the arrogancefound inorchestrated ostracizationI guess Isleep betterwith the comfort of knowingI’m an asshole

My eyes strain

to findeven a refraction of your lightshiningbeckoningwelcoming me toshelterfrom thedense grey fogdescended uponthe waters.

What just happened

inside of me?I felt my body miss youthen my digestive systemdistracted me.I grabbed a penand my notebookto write aboutthe way thatthe thought ofyoumakes me feel. AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED

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 […]

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