Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/12/08: Back on the street.

Jacob Lawrence, "Supermarket — Gifts for the Homeless" (1994) — Jacob Lawrence, *Supermarket — Gifts for the Homeless* (1994)

July 12, 2008:

Back on the street.

Once upon a time clean shaven and clear-eyed. Now, bleary, dirty, jittery from withdrawal, with preposterous stories of kidnap by Mexican drug cartels and beatings by Hell's Angels.

Empty your wallet. Buy him a set of painter's whites. There's always hope.