Mark Phillips' Pages: Collections: Lovers: "It was the worst experience of my life..."

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

"It was the worst experience of my life," she said, and like shock treatment it realigned her perspectives temporarily, until all the usual habits of stasis and entropy drove her back to wishing for change, wishing for something new, leaving us fighting pointlessly over the same old scraps.