Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/14/12: How she needs to be flattered.

Jacob Lawrence, "The Lovers," 1946 — Jacob Lawrence, *The Lovers* (1946)

July 14, 2012:

How she needs to be flattered.
To have her ego kissed and sucked and stroked,
shaped to lines of fantasy
laid down in childhood by parents with no
notion what the future held.

But what she wants from me right now is more
than I feel obliged to give.

What next?