Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: April 2006

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 39" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 39. The death of Toussaint L'Ouverture in the Prison of Le Joux, April 1803. This was a year later. He died of starvation, because "he didn't feel like eating." (1938)

Workbook: April, 2006

April 30, 2006: In the pictures he looks proud.
April 29, 2006: In the pictures he looks happy.
April 28, 2006: Those book cases will not fit the new library.
April 27, 2006: "I am constant as the Northern Star."
April 26, 2006: The contempt, on those message boards.
April 25, 2006: You had to fight her for that accomplishment.
April 24, 2006: "Best band in town," she said, proudly...
April 23, 2006: She cleaned the mold from your camera bag by keeping it with her in the sun day after day.
April 22, 2006: "Fine," he said, with an impolite sneer.
April 21, 2006: Stare down the new neighbor, the rudest one of the lot, the one who moved in overhead.
April 20, 2006: How do you tell someone you love...
April 19, 2006: Ancient Chevy beneath palms...
April 18, 2006: Elation.
April 17, 2006: She bought me Milanos.
April 16, 2006: "Then, don't say 'nationalization'."
April 15, 2006: "There's not going to be a war"
April 14, 2006: She won't rest...
April 13, 2006: The secret lies partly in class.
April 12, 2006: Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away a boy in middle school loves his art class.
April 11, 2006: Profoundly different from the other kids.
April 10, 2006: The ceiling against your nose.
April 9, 2006: Tattoos, each the symbolic name of an island:
April 8, 2006: The dirt in my soles.
April 7, 2006: It's been such a long time since you last met someone interesting.
April 6, 2006: Woman in the grocery store, crowding hard to the right...
April 5, 2006: "So-and-so was a good leader. She slept with the wrong colleague and that made her crazy."
April 4, 2006: To be Japanese, in this place, of all places.
April 3, 2006: My colleague believes that I don't take adulthood seriously enough.
April 2, 2006: Verbal politics.
April 1, 2006: I do wish that she loved me.