Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/18/04: "That's not as important."

Jacob Lawrence, "The Lovers," 1946 — Jacob Lawrence, *The Lovers* (1946)

July 18, 2004:

"That's not as important."

Same tired family romance. Keep your identity to yourself: it isn't wanted.

Once upon a time there was a life buoy. It's not important what. Only that in all the wide ocean there was this lone little raft. In retrospect that was probably a helpful illusion.