once i saw an episode of star trek
you know the ones with captain picard
and i don’t remember exactly
because it was a long time ago
but the enterprise was passing a nebula
and then they heard a distress signal
there was a spaceship caught in the nebula
but they couldn’t go in and help it
because they’d get trapped in the nebula too
and then counselor troy the empath
started to hear a voice
saying the same thing over and over
and i don’t remember exactly
but it was something like two rings four two
and counselor troy felt tormented by the voice
because she knew it was very important
but nobody knew what it meant
and it all got very dark and eerie.
and then finally at the end
i don’t remember how
they realized that it meant carbon
something as basic as carbon
so they sent in a vessel with carbon
and the spaceship got out of the nebula.
but captain picard was a scientist why didn’t he know it was carbon
and i feel like i’m trapped in a nebula
and this website has become the nebula
and all i want to tell you is carbon
something as basic as carbon
but the more i keep trying
to tell you carbon
the less you understand me
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(note: the question was asked me below, what carbon do i think i need? that was not intended to be my meaning in this poem–. which was really written with a particular person in mindi–and what i meant by the carbon was simply being able to understand each other
