A map

is an anthropocentrically contextualized fragmented representation of an abstracted theorization of reality.

Where does the need to

leavecome from?If you don’t want tostay.Why don’t you want tostay?Because I would ratherleave.

Would you go with me if I felt the need to fly away?

I know you understand the weight that the burden of your hometown’s past carries,and the ways of its omnipresence in our patch of the world.Would you pick up and go with me?I don’t want to leave to forget,I want to leave to see different things.Things nouveau to my eyes,Old things of the earth.Would you go […]

In my dream I was lost

unable to tell one street from the nextinside from outthis place was not this placeI think I was myself, but who’s to know

As I realize

that what you are to meis unrealizableyou’re reaching out,sending parts of you,through screens and microphones.We will always be part of the same whole.

I’d like to go

somewhere elsesomewhere far awayI want to learn a new languageI want to play soccer againI want to write a better poem than this

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