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 and see with me?
Lets make our own map of this world.
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