Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: November 2020

Workbook: November, 2020

November 30, 2020: We usually have a couple of dollars for lunch.
November 29, 2020: We alternate, day-by-day.
November 28, 2020: The tiny snap of a single cap is dissatisfying.
November 27, 2020: Difficulty speaking.
November 26, 2020: Loneliness as trigger, exacerbated now by lockdown.
November 25, 2020: A Funeral in Tecolote
November 24, 2020: I bought treats for her sweet doggie but she hurt me so I ghosted them both.
November 23, 2020: "That little Jew girl," said the man who sired me.
November 22, 2020: Signs of her aging have begun to surface.
November 21, 2020: We haven't spoken in fifteen years and the first thing she does is show me a naked polaroid.
November 20, 2020: "Is there more about me?"
November 19, 2020: Sad dream.
November 18, 2020: "I've read books like that," she said, sneering.
November 17, 2020: "Belonging," says the shorthand.
November 16, 2020: Veggie pad thai slathered in the juice of limes; soda mandarina by Jarritos.
November 15, 2020: Sophistication mimed by expensive clothes, expensive liquor, expensive cigarettes.
November 14, 2020: Gunshots through woods.
November 13, 2020: With her child's smile and her child's enthusiasm she asks to see my fingernails.
November 12, 2020: Walter, retired Foreign Service, owns a primer which promises to improve his vocabulary.
November 11, 2020: Sick of me being right all the time...
November 10, 2020: I opted out.
November 9, 2020: Incented, the painted wind.
November 8, 2020: No — there were happy memories.
November 7, 2020: I'm thinking of how painful it must have been for her to leave me with sitters as she left for work.
November 6, 2020: Chocolate butter creams.
November 5, 2020: "What did you read this summer?"
November 4, 2020: The apogee of my academic experience was a course on Ulysses in my third year.
November 3, 2020: There was a straightforward relationship between scarcity and events.
November 2, 2020: I loved her because she read books.
November 1, 2020: City man in grey and bowler, with briefcase.