This is bad

When was it,exactly,that I started believing people could beGoodagain? Was it after thefifth beer? Or after that shot ofwhatever the fuck? Or maybe it wassome other event,conversation,occurrence,marked by human interaction,rather thanostracized gulpsof self-prescribed medication. Well,it was definitely before I returned homealone. We are all here.Sharing this life,this time,this place. But the truth iswe are all […]

Church with Mother

the point of your earringdriven by your polished nailsthrough your sunday skirtand into your pale thighdistracts you from the painyou really feelin an attempt to keepyour eyes dry

A bad prediction

Her fiancé has landed in Tel-Aviv,I gather from her side of the conversation(the only audible sideas it has so often been)with Patrick over the phone.News of riots in Jerusalemigniting fanciful thoughts of the worst.Who can blame her?She made her way across the worldto see cruelty lurking in the corners,bruises left by racist fists upondear friends […]

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