used tissue

is it the [faint reverberation]of pain in your voice that speaks to me?[flowing][creeping] past my ears, into the fogof latencywhere you shine no lightbut are willingto explore in darkness feel your way through the mistwith your broken fleshstretched and torn:scars that hide your scarsuntil you feel my gazeand relight your eyes as you press your […]

The Texture of Texture

texture of my braintexture of my mindtexture of a photograph of the beachtexture of a painting of the oceantexture of sandtexture of the seatexture of a grain of sandtexture of a drop of watertexture of painttexture of glosstexture of my fingertexture of yourstexture of youtexture of fabrictexture of the fabric of realitytexture of the fabric […]

Self Indulgence

traces of old loverscomposed unintentionallyin dreams,inadvertentlyin strangers faces.They are not here;no tracesno smell no tastecannot feel them cannot heartheir voice;so what is this thatlingers? Myeyesdo notbut apparentlyIcansee them.See what?Memory—so unreliablecomposes subjectivereferenceshistories.Recall what once was,whether you care toor not.The mind’s eye never blinks.It’s symphonies,though composed by us,are impossible for us to understand,and leave us with retrospective […]

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.

Tragic Satirization

self deprecationunappreciationsevere miscommunicationmisread observationsrapid fluxationfalse constellationsfallacious extrapolationconvoluted socializationinadvertent misrepresentationsdiachronic recreationssloppy installationsignorant amplificationsde and re segregationchronic procrastinationambiguous divinationfallic gyrationpremature ejaculationspontaneous inspirationfowl degradationstatic dissipationstandard immunizationdiscreet implicationforced penetrationfamilial relationsadistic manipulationconstant participationobligatory observationredundant recitationmanifestation of living frustrationfeverous inebriationdangerous connotationscalloused determinationdestructive inclinationmutual masturbationfocused perspirationcontrastive enunciationrapturous sublimination

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