Notices by Mordecai Martin (mordecaimartin@rage.love), page 2

@crybaby that sounds lovely

@rochelle Naw, it's fine

Hey all! I’m giving this workshop! I’m gonna do a longer post about it later today, when I’m not holding my baby, but in the meantime, if you’re interested, sign up! https://www.honeyliterary.com/workshops

I have writing to do. Yes, in the sense that I have discrete projects that need attending, but also, in the grand and beautiful sense that the task is never over, that the self is expansive, that the world is full. I’m so grateful.

Lotta writing tasks that aren’t writing recently

I just started 5784 by cutting 6k words from this manuscript, dropping me to just below 20k, let's fucking goooooooo I am feeling RECKLESS

Shanah Tovah, friends. May the year be good and blessed for us all.

@umalkosh avoid crowds where they might get sick, sadly

You know I keep that thang on me ( my infant child in my arms)

My infant child really looked me in the eyes and said, “Sleep? Me?! Calumny! Slander! In short, falsehood. The truth is I have not slept and never shall sleep, for I am a man of principle and ambition, and detest sloth in all its ugly forms”

Best sentence I wrote today: "What if the fridge is the hearth inverted, the homestead represented, not by flickering warmth, but by frigid eternity?"

What about you?

I’ve decided to stop taking only adorable pictures of my baby. Time to really push the form.

@Cyborgneticz looking sharp!

@theauracle I like what you’re saying here a lot, because what I hear is that ideas, songs, dances, stories, art, are all inextricable from their creators. We can’t really engage an idea without a citation, a source. We need to know who thought of something to think of it too. It is capitalism that wants to extract and isolate ideas from their thinkers, to unnaturally approach ideas as resources and material.

@crybaby oh this sucks I hate this. I’m so sorry

You know, as I sit here, reeking of my child’s goat milk scented vomit from a formula I pay 40 bucks per can for, I can only confirm my pre pregnancy suspicion: this kid really cramped my style and ruined the vibe

I read and write to end the vast loneliness behind my eyes, to close the impossible chasms between my human experience and another’s. Tell me what point Chat GPT has in that project.

This kid wants to hold their own bottles so badly! Sorry buddy, you just do not have the proprioception

Walking that thin line between letting my kid practice soothing themselves and not ferberizing

@theauracle Take your time. And apologies if anything I says sits wrong or offends. If that's the case, I'd appreciate you letting me know, but no worries if that's not a priority for you.