Listening to Elliot Smith and writing poetry like a loser

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

Feeling disheartened by literally everything

New plan:

Today I revised a poem. It’s published but I dislike it At first it defied me. So I fought hard & tore it limb from limb. Reassembly of scattered members produced something even more monstrous. Surgery & grafting followed. Then: improvement! Almost rejuvenation. New offspring Soon I will loathe it

Oops I burnt out again….

Sanderson nailed it youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?...

Got my copy of Ramble No. 1 by @mohaynow.com !!!!!!! Can’t wait to dig in!!!

I have to write a screenplay in a week. Stop distracting me lol

Thank you, Marty! I hope you find something to enjoy in it 🙏

I just got plastic: a poem by @matthew-rice.bsky.social and I’m really looking forward to digging in. It’s going to be a few because I’m on a tight deadline but I can’t wait to read it!

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

We’ve been programmed to think progress is putting screens in every appliance when real progress would be appliances that last 100 years

Times New Roman and arial are as hideous as comic sans to me. Courier new is the best standard font, history will show…

Trust me, I've been doing this totally accidentally in a burrito costume for 7 years. I’ve intimidated the Paris Review, gotten grilled by the New Yorker, and stumbled ass backwards into the Simon and Schuster offices and I'm telling you none of this is real. All of these assholes are making it up

My play was a hit! I’m utterly elated!

Tonight I’m going to see my play performed for the first time! This is something that I’ve dreamed of for decades and now it’s actually happening!

Paying submission fees to be rejected is so funny dude

My criterion for whether I keep a book is “how likely am I to buy this book again if I sell it?”

some say that if you visit john cage's grave you can still hear him performing 4'33"

✍️ #amwriting Sir David Attenborough’s Guide to Readers in the Wild

New poem out in Blood+Honey! This one is for the cautious omnivores out there

Poem "Meat" by Writer-in-Residence Marty Shambles @martyshambles.bsky.social “is it the good part of the / animal or the bad part? / is it tender muscle or / sinew and viscera? / only the chew knows” www.bloodhoneylit.com/marty-shambl...

New Poem Up on Blood+Honey [MEAT] martyshambles.com/blog/new-poe...

I have a problem with textures...

That manic sense that the magnum opus is incipient

Publishing is weird because you can do everything right and still feel insane.

not that anyone asked, but here's why I don't comment on politics on social media anymore martyshambles.com/blog/not-tha...

The neighborhood kids are yelling “I’m the alpha!” “No I’m the alpha!” It’s like listening to twitter

beautiful new Natalie Warther today! "Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag." https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il

On slop: My commitment to never use AI. martyshambles.com/blog/on-slop...

Hi we're abstaining because it sucks ass, hope that helps

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!

ME:

The main thing I've learned this whole journey is nobody knows what they're doing so you're probably doing fine!

This is as close as I get to a love poem.

The NFL is known for its great smells!

PSA: don’t center align your poetry. Ever.

today's Kaitlan Bui poem is one of my fave things i've read in a while. so honored to get to share it. "when he was my age, my grandfather would comb the scalp of the forest for shells, then write letters to the families of dead bodies he found." https://www.havehashad.com/3vdnr

I'm certain you can write a book. Creating a whole ass human being who will become an entire universe unto themselves only takes 9 months!

I picked up autocartographies by @evaalterpoet.bsky.social through @bruisermag.com and I’m loving it! Pick yourself up a copy from Bruiser and tell ‘em Marty sent ya. (They won’t know what that means but tell them anyway)

Screenplay "Form Follows Folly" by Writer-in-Residence @martyshambles.bsky.social “So the mirage was here. It looked just like a city, but it was the dance of light off the flex of the desert. I came out where the continent yearned for more...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/marty-shambl...

Going through my great grandmother’s record collection and realizing somebody will listen to my record collection ironically on a long enough timeline. Chilling.

“i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp— the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):” Damn.

“Will the AI bubble burst?” No it’s the kind of bubble that’s known for its permanence 😅

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wrote a blog post about self doubt and then didn't have the gumption to post it

This is my thesis statement or something