• a small piece of the car. which no longer fits.
• a vacuum attachment. which is just plain dumb.
• a tablecloth. never quite clean enough.
• a pile of small day of the dead paper plates. cake, please.
• a stack of birthday paper plates. still no cake.

• one orange sweater. sadly unflattering.
• one sports helmet. for a very tiny head.
• a rock. obsidian, but still a rock.
• a tube of fizzy rehydration formula. that tastes like grape cough syrup.
• a pdx carpet jack o'lantern. yes, we did.