It hurts too much to write right now

I’ve been trying so hard to live without painbut the instantaneous dissipationof the only words I could mutterhas left the room empty.The reverberations of your footstepshave dissolved into the infinite,leaving mecold, trembling, and alone.

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.

Human connection,

what we desire mosteach of us has our ownthoughts,insights,love,we find comfort incamaraderiehope infellowship Human connectionwhat we fear mosteach of us, with ourfears,insecurities,guilt,we find vexation inmiscommunication,sorrow inloss Human connectionwhat sometimes seems impossibleeach of us is composed ofindividualitybeliefssecretswe are solitary inour mindswhich causes fear inour hearts

A sound paradox (at wit’s end)

I’ll make you hotAs I turn coldI’ll open you upAnd then I’ll foldI’ll tie you downAs I fly freeI won’t leaveBut let me beI’ll give you allBut relinquish nothingI won’t speakBut I’ll tell you somethingI’ll tell the truthBut don’t believe meJust let me be aloneAnd never leave meI can’t support youBut I’ll be your crutchBecause […]

Against boredom themselves…

What is there left to donow that God isn’t watching? Now that airplanes and the internethave proved cultural relativism to bemostly a crock of shit. Humanists forgot about the environment.Environmentalists forgot about the human experience. Now that ethics are subjective,Matter is the only objective constant,and it’s in a state of constant flux. Sometimes all I […]

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