“Babylon is nothing but an infinite game of chance”

Are we nothing but a brainbehind a mask?If there was anall-merciful Godthere would be no hellif there was anAlmighty planthere would be no free will if space is infinitetime is infiniteand language is infinitely productivewhy do weparadoxically-perpetuallydeal with the finite?

What am I talking about?

The frantic scriblles of a madmanThe regurgitation of a sick manThe productivity of a recluseThe result of insomniaThe transcendental recordings of a wise manThe blood of a masochistThe songs of a loverThe praise of a priestThe death of a childThe lens towards beautyThe veil to realityThe path to destructionThe road to salvationThe ink on this […]

To be or not to be.

I am, therefore I be.I be bein’.I be.I will not be.I don’t want to not be.I am scared of not being.I be scared of not being.I can’t not be,Otherwise I am not.I am.I am.Someday I will not.You are.I am.Now we are.Let’s be.Because someday we won’t be.

Isolation is unachievable

Isolation is unavoidableIf you remove yourself from a placeyou are not therebut you are alwayshereif you are standing on a rooftopand your alarm clock goes offdo you wake down? I want to feel foreign fabricsI want to obliterateI want to preserveI want to be able to seeeverythingwhen I close my eyes I hope I feeleverythingwhen […]

enjamb that lin

eenjamb this linepaint a metaphorI just didrecognize the arbitrariness of wordsunderstand that utterance is not iconic of meaningplay a song in your headplay a song on this pagethis is upside downdn ǝpᴉsʇɥƃᴉɹ sᴉ sᴉɥʇI am omniscient in this notebookuntil you read itthen you take my omnipotencyand I am impotentuntil you take my hand

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