- Small dog
- Switchblade
- Tiny scissors
- Abalone comb
- Leather wallet
- Tiger skin wallet
- Sting ray wallet
- Car keys to a tattooed ‘79 minivan
- The keys to the kingdom
- The keys to a secret garden
- The keys to a private bedroom where awaits a personal harem
- A small rubber action figure shaped like the king of hearts
- A handful of silver and gold rings with ornate gypsy flowers jeweled with semiprecious stones that jingle when I walk
- One of those little hula girl dancers yanked off of someone’s dashboard in a fit of rage
- Broken shards of glass
- Pieces of stained glass for making stained glass windows in the sunroom at home
- Cat fur
- A braid of lover’s hair
- A glass eye
- A vial of ocean water with salt crystals swirling around inside
- Marbles
- A fountain pen and vial of india ink
- A faded love letter from a distant shore
- A pocket watch
- A locket with a broken chain that used to hang around someone’s neck but now it stays safely in the pocket of a jacket worn religiously
- A treasure map
- A tiny book of card tricks
- A pack of cards and pair of dice
- A little mohito umbrella formed on a salty wooden toothpick
- Parsley garnish from a cafeteria meal hastily snarfed away
- A lei
- condoms
- An engagement ring
- Dreams for tomorrow
- Stars
- Prayers
- Prayer beads
- Rosary beads
- A teeny tiny bible
- Tarot cards
- Fingernail clippers
- fingernail clippings
- Wadded up tissues
- Dragon ball z trading cards and dog-eared ripped flea market card-protectors shoddily manufactured in china
- A neon yellow barbie doll sweater
- A shark tooth
- A heart-shaped box
- A hearing aid
- A pack of marshmellows spilling out over the sides
- A teeny tiny xylophone
- A set of seven finger puppets shaped like fairy-tale creatures
- A (pissed off/despondant/brooding/happy-go-lucky) fairy (in a keychain-sized jar)
- A snow globe paperweight
- Tickets to Australia
- Train tickets to Bolivia
- A wadded up napkin with numbers on it written in shaky handwriting and stained with lipstick
- A wadded up napkin with numbers on it written in seductive swoopy elegant handwriting and oiled with chapstick and french fry grease marks and tea stains
- A formal request
- A deliberate, written apology sanctioned by the ministry in exchange for making everyone’s life ‘a little easier.’
- A notarized confession
- Counterfeit bills
- Grapefruit tictacs
- Licorice altoids
- Moon cakes
- death certificates
- Red bean cakes hermetically sealed in plastic wrap, and a little swished from the ride
- Cherry flavored bubblegum with real cherries
- Fresh cherries
- Fresh oranges
- Fresh kiwis
- Strawberry lipgloss
- Pomade
- Two freshly washed and chilled strawberries covered unappetizingly in pocket lint
- A perfect replica of the baby grand piano that played in the casino where they met on a starry night over cups of coffee and the wheezing moans of shaky trains, sitting down in front of a broadway show specially ordered off broad way with sequined showgirls in extravagant--unnecessary, he thought--sparkles
- A number two mechanical pencil mysteriously floating around from the very first day they met when she loaned it to her, having always come to class without adequate supplies and thus formed the foundation of their friendship
- A valentine's red frilly, lacy thong
- A garter belt
- pantyhose
- A candy cane
- Some beer bottle tops
- Bits of electrical wires, red, black and white
- Pieces of a motherboard and part of a CPU fan
- Fingerpaints
- Glitter glue
- Worn out Paintbrushes
- Microns
- Bits of confetti
- Sequins from a showgirl’s brasier
- Salt and pepper shaker
- Stolen spoon that he’s been trying to bend with his mind for weeks at a time ever since his psych teacher told him she’d done it once
- Three pennies for the I ching
- Hell note money folded into paper cranes
- Can of oysters in wasabi
- A lavender dog collar for her gay dalmation
- Pilfered saltine crackers and condiments
- Pilfered hotel shampoos, soaps, and conditioners
- A travel toothbrush
- A hot wheels porsche
- fuschia hair dye
- Honey colored lipstick
- Organic local honey
- Bee pollen in a tube
- A million dollar check
- A chocolate easter bunny
apr 3 2010 ∞
may 30 2012 +