Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/18/08: We promised to search for him, but, we forgot.

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

July 18, 2008:

We promised to search for him, but, we forgot.

Trapped in our own tensions, our own struggles, the stress of her addiction, minute to minute, random, noisy like the rumble of city streets, burying specifics beneath the background wash of constant chaos.

I will be better able to help after she's gone.