MY DESK IS THE KITCHEN TABLE.
A LIST —
- iPhone – the screen says it’s 2/25/25 and 3:42
- Water Glass 1/4 full of water with a rubber band around it to mark it as mine when we have company, which we have just had.
- Yellow Writing Pad
- A piece of paper torn roughly from the pad and scratched with bank account figuring
- Laptop open with screen loaded to this assignment
- Heart shaped Dog biscuit. (It was gone by the time I finished the list)
- Unopened box labeled as yellow PLA filament for David’s 3D dragon printing project
- ACE Hardware mailer
- Four brand new Tombow pens in daffodil colors
- The Brothers Karamozov open to the Alyosha chapter and with many little green sticky tabs hanging out of the Father Zosima chapter
- A blue pen (I wrote this list on the yellow writing pad with a red pen)
- Prismacolor PC 904 — Think Sky Blue colored pencil. (I looked up the name and it’s “Light Cerulean Blue”. Then I looked up Cerulean, and I was right.)
- A new blue fidget toy David just printed and gave me

*Exercise 001 from the brand new Substack Mondays Are Free, a reservoir of writing exercises by Ross Gay & Patrick Rosal and curated by Essence London & janan alexandra