Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 8/22/21: I am thinking of sad things.

Jacob Lawrence, "Harlem Hospital's Free Clinic" (1943) — Jacob Lawrence, *Harlem Hospital's Free Clinic is Crowded with Patients Every Morning and Evening* (1943)

August 22, 2021:

I am thinking of sad things.
I am thinking of endings.

With my pain and symptoms and slow sad failure into night.

There are many things I have come to understand. Many others I obviously never will. Just like everyone, perhaps, although to me it all feels entirely unique.