Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: May 2011

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 6" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 6. The birth of Toussaint L'Ouverture, May 20, 1743. Both of Toussaint's parents were slaves.* (1938)

Workbook: May, 2011

May 31, 2011: Furious when I land the job she wants, traveling with the band.
May 30, 2011: Santa Cruz.
May 29, 2011: Let's not talk of her experiments with other men.
May 28, 2011: What the child feels when the mother goes away with a strange man.
May 27, 2011: Clinging female...
May 26, 2011: "What kind of democracy..."
May 25, 2011: I think...
May 24, 2011: Buildings on hillsides look like castles.
May 23, 2011: I rented my childhood apartment.
May 22, 2011: How can your heart be unhappy...
May 21, 2011: You imagine what you might say...
May 20, 2011: In pencil she adds a reminder at the top of my journal page:
May 19, 2011: Too slow, too slow...
May 18, 2011: Bed, journal, pens, Maupassant, Althusser.
May 17, 2011: World's greatest job.
May 16, 2011: Study at the bowling alley.
May 15, 2011: You want her to call...
May 14, 2011: Why am I free of her, then?
May 13, 2011: "Embarrassed because you're not a physical beauty."
May 12, 2011: She's so narcissistic she has no inkling I've avoided her for years.
May 11, 2011: Dissolve yourself in love. Devolve yourself in love.
May 10, 2011: She talks about sex this way:
May 9, 2011: First she was angry I hadn't written...
May 8, 2011: She thought she killed him.
May 7, 2011: I've always slept poorly by myself.
May 6, 2011: She will. She won't.
May 5, 2011: B: So how'd it go?
May 4, 2011: National Park on 101 Day.
May 3, 2011: Can't count the times she said she was a genius.
May 2, 2011: Her first and most unconsolable broken heart happened as a child...
May 1, 2011: Like waking from a three year sleep.