5 Minute Freewrite: carbon lifeform

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Carbon lifeform. I confess, I don't know much about carbon. I know we are carbon lifeforms (right?). I say stuff that I think is true, but when I don't really understand what it means, I question myself. It reminds me of a poem by Megan...Fernandez? I think? I think that's her last name, I mean. I don't remember the title of the poem, but in it, she confesses how she was out with friends and said something like, what's closer, the sun or the moon? And her friends looked at her like she was an idiot and said, the moon, of course. And she was like, of course. And that's how I'm feeling right now, a little. Carbon lifeforms. That....or is that just plants, and it has to do with photosynthesis? See how little I know here? Carbon. What in the frick is carbon. Carbon copy. Must have something to do with actual carbon. So it's like black smudgy stuff. Carbon lifeform. Anything with life? Jesus. I really want to google carbon right now, but I must type away, revealing my knowledge gap more and more. I've been thinking lately, how we are all the earth. Like we are not just a part of the earth, we are the earth. I'm not, like, the first person to have this idea. In fact, I'm thinking of it because of a poem I read, but I can't remember by whom. So yeah, how foolish that we kill each other, we're killing ourselves. We should just care, care, care, all should be filled with caring and loving and