Individuality:

Perpetual isolation in the confines of consciousness. Personality:Features imposed on another’s conceptual representation of a person empirically gathered

I’m sorry ***,

I never realizedwhat I meant to you. What you’ve done to meand what I’ve done to youis joyis painthere was weaknessand there was hopethere was sorrybut lots of joy.It hurts to moveit hurts to thinkof youwithout you.But sometimesthere’s more solacein the sanctuaryof solitude

No rest

only the faint dissipatingbut piercingscent ofmango fleshand an emptiness emanatinga permeating sadnessis all my bed has to offer

As I realize

that what you are to meis unrealizableyou’re reaching out,sending parts of you,through screens and microphones.We will always be part of the same whole.

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