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 parrents were slaves. (1938)

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Workbook: May, 2003

May 31, 2003: Neighbor cat, great gray tabby, mature, friendly, confident.
May 30, 2003: Gurney, ER, institutional green walls, dirty white curtain as separator.
May 29, 2003: Between scoops of mint chocolate chip she said, "We all know you're obsessed..."
May 28, 2003: Best natural activist you've ever seen.
May 27, 2003: You know you've reached an awkward age...
May 26, 2003: As a child I was mesmerized by colors.
May 25, 2003: Flag worship as superstition.
May 24, 2003: TechnologyLand, DotCom startup, second floor offices above a nuclear radiology lab, San Francisco, CA.
May 23, 2003: The "artist", self-described, Walter Keene, upset that one of his bug-eyed children has been removed from the office wall.
May 22, 2003: Good Friday, beachfront motel, heavy surf.
May 21, 2003: Rude, fat woman at the front desk, checking out.
May 20, 2003: Smarmy office-female with lipstick and a pretend smile.
May 19, 2003: Guest, leaning over the front-desk counter...
May 18, 2003: Fat woman, blazing abalone earrings and thick coral lipstick...
May 17, 2003: Hospital bed many sizes too large for little me.
May 16, 2003: Men who claim they'd never break under torture are as naive as they are boring.
May 15, 2003: I miss S. for the things she says, the way she makes me feel like her best friend.
May 14, 2003: "You look exactly like your pictures..."
May 13, 2003: The label is all-important.
May 12, 2003: She looked through my photo album.
May 11, 2003: As a child the King James Bible's archaic English was an impediment.
May 10, 2003: The twentieth anniversary is approaching of one of the worst things I've ever done.
May 9, 2003: Pinay woman, heavyset, very short, watches TV in the Service Department's waiting room.
May 8, 2003: "Free the bound periodicals!"
May 7, 2003: "That damn boy'll never 'mount to nothin'."
May 6, 2003: Neighbor girl, sometimes your babysitter while your mother's out.
May 5, 2003: My cancer is like a friend who screens me from those parts of the world from which I choose to disengage.
May 4, 2003: A clogged bathroom got her out of bed in the early a.m.
May 3, 2003: She interacts with her TV, shouting "You're so stupid!" at game show contestants.
May 2, 2003: The President made me late for work today.
May 1, 2003: One of the few times I've knowingly hallucinated happened in college, when I'd been awake three or four nights at the end of a term.

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