I can’t tell

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

The desire to leave a mark,

some sort of lasting impression,drives the handto the pento the page.But what canthe frantic scribblesof a worn-downindividualactually doamidst theswirling fluxof the cosmos?We all want to be remembered, but is it worth the effort?

deal me out

I can’t stack the odds amidst this chaos

Can I be so,

fuck,where are the words.What do I even want to say?I don’t knowthis is pointlessfuck it

I would have told you

that I’d make us lattesin the morningand you would have stayedin my bed instead I chose tonot watch you leaveand thought of all thepossible worldsin which I told youabout thetwisted tangledtapestryI believewe have woven

I feel your fingers in the breeze

as it danceson my fleshthe wind carriesyour voiceto my earsand down into medeep insideto that long forsaken placeclosed off to the worldfor a yearthe old wooden cigar boxsealed shut for so longbut the wind is beginningto flow through the crackswill I be able tolet you in?will I let youread everything?you say you share my painbut […]

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