Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 5/27/05: The serving staff circle like airliners on holding pattern.

Jacob Lawrence, "Marketplace," 1966 — Jacob Lawrence, *Marketplace* (1966)

May 27, 2005:

The serving staff circle like airliners on holding pattern. Precisely spaced: eleven seconds. Then the shortest possible pause to glance at the table. Is there anything required? Hardly, as I'm alone, and no food has yet arrived. Then onward, ever-circling, exactly like the fish in the row of cramped tanks along the back wall.