Marketing

tries to convince the masses that value is correlated to production, consumption, and profit

at a loss of words

confused at the implicationsof my utteranceswhat is the value of this pageof these wordswhat do they mean?I don’t knowdo you?

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.

When words come slowly practice your handwriting

ink on the pageis an actor on stagebut words aren’t always truelike a guitar slightly out of tunemetaphors and analogiespainting with imagerycan we createor only imitatereduplicate?is choice an illusionbecause everything is determinedor am I just lost in confusion man instills meaning and valuebut what does value mean?are we all aloneor are we a team?what have […]

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