in order to build anything substantial

you must understandthat no action is inconsequentialyou can’t have a causewithout a rebelcan’t have a Jesuswithout a devilcan’t make a canwithout some metal

Its strange

how much longerit takes to record a thoughtthan it takes to think itandhow much shorterit takes to pour a drinkthan to drink it

What is looked for

is what is foundso if you’re looking forpeace, love, or justice,don’t look around

a trivial travesty

a table turnedbridges burnedthrough addictive maladycommon flaws are what separate uscommon flaws are what create uscommon flaws are what sustain usentertain us

Pen wanders to the page

Mind wonders about this day in ageSilly rhymesTo pass the timeTo fill linesSitting on my assIn this purgatorial class

My eyes burn as dry

as the well in my pen;My words are as emptyas the thoughts in my head. I hear nothing next to methe place you used to rest;Where I used to listen to you breatheas I felt my heartbeat in my chest.

There’s this pain in my heart that just won’t go away

even though I want to speak to you I don’t know what to sayI wish that I could tell you exactly how I feelwish that you understood that what I feel for you is realcuz our story has not been terminatedwe’re just living our lives separatedit’s hard to understand why wechanged to you and mebut […]

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