Individuality:

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

I’m bored

a am bored I don’t want to be here I wonder if my professor thinks I’m taking notes I can’t wait to drive home the drive will be nice in the dark it’s relaxing amidst the huge motor vehicles careening towards each other at speeds that can easily kill but don’t think about how one […]

I probably should start reading

some of these poems assigned for this class so that I could write something somewhat constructive during these free-write sessions rather than scribbling away meaninglessly and uselessly. I wonder if my professor ever sees me writing so quickly and intently and gets excited or hopeful that I’m making some sort of insight. Sorry. Not sorry.

Lost in the leaves

of my own story… walking home aloneyour presenceis allI desire I hunger foryour lipsI thirstfor your soul the chain of your devotionmay set me freeif I can allow emotionto transcend my thoughts gray is the backgroundfor your spectrum of colorsas I try to stay afloatamidst the companyof others

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 […]

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