Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 9/30/02: she burned me once with a lit cigarette

Jacob Lawrence, "The Migration of the Negro No. 53" (1941) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Migration of the Negro No 53. The Negroes who had been North for quite some time met their fellowmen with disgust and aloofness.* (1941)

September 30, 2002:

she burned me once with a lit cigarette
it was in a bowling alley with a group of adults
she was drunk and waved her hand while she spoke
i said "you're going to burn me with that!"
she rolled her eyes with a grownup's impatience for childhood fears and said "no I won't"
but she did
she caught me on the cheek
waving her hand drunk