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That's Not How Thought Works

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Published: Jun 2, 2012

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That's not how thought works
It isn't words
It isn't paragraph-long ideas

It's infinite
Slow and fast

Somewhere between letters and pixels, in the fourth demension

Indefinable, never exact or vague

One man's philosophy is another man's trash.

Congealed air, poisonous gas.
Carbon dioxide. Chlorine. Cancer.

It flows sideways through your ears.

It has you eating green,
Bowing to flashing lights

Your lips bleed concentrated information.

Subjective, Subjective.
Individuals aren't individual.

Life is a four letter word.

And that's not how thought works.

There's about a dozen different philosophies mixed into this one poem.

I read this at a poetry reading at my college in April.

I've gotten better at poetry now that I realized that it isn't dependent on a form or on a specific thought. It shouldn't be forced. It should only happen when it happens.

This is an original work of poetry. Do NOT use without my permission.

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