Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: February 2011

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 1" (1939) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 1. In Talbot County, eastern shore, state of Maryland, in a thinly populated worn-out district inhabited by a white population of the lowest order, among slaves who in point of ignorance were fully in accord with their surroundings-it was here that Frederick Douglass was born and spent the first years of his childhood-February 1818. (1939)

Workbook: February, 2011

February 28, 2011: Hanging up the phone...
February 27, 2011: Angry at her...
February 26, 2011: Some time long ago she learned the cardinal lesson of her life:
February 25, 2011: In Europe the choice is simple:
February 24, 2011: The housekeepers refer to the owner contemptuously as "La Chingadera".
February 23, 2011: So she's gone.
February 22, 2011: She was just seventeen when we met.
February 21, 2011: She has her own special practice of communication:
February 20, 2011: Her need to be wheedled.
February 19, 2011: That night they both write to my ex.
February 18, 2011: We were miserable then, always fighting.
February 17, 2011: Tonight the background music at my neighborhood Safeway included The Clash.
February 16, 2011: Good days bad days, good hours bad hours.
February 15, 2011: He differentiates the groups based on gossip:
February 14, 2011: There's a great distance between us...
February 13, 2011: Learn not to talk about her so much.
February 12, 2011: Insect kingdom: spiders, roaches, millions of fleas.
February 11, 2011: Ocean Beach lumpens at the Young Professionals' party.
February 10, 2011: Dinner with her ex...
February 9, 2011: Without warning there's good writing:
February 8, 2011: Old bed in a new bedroom.
February 7, 2011: The clutter of my desk...
February 6, 2011: She pierced my ear with needle and string...
February 5, 2011: She puts her entire life into her kisses.
February 4, 2011: It changed so fast.
February 3, 2011: What did her heartbeat say?
February 2, 2011: Turns out we didn't break up.
February 1, 2011: Weird period of calm and optimism with only some real justification...