Empty bottles, envelopes, bowls, receipts and bent papers on my desk remind me of Andrew's or Elanor's attempts to give meaning to pocketbook houses.

Nutritional life-boosting Carbonated Kale Invigoration $10
Saucer-cup keep-it-warm combo $15
$500 well done this week! mattress
     $10 umbrella because bonuses keep out the rain.

Tomorrow on sale is electric blanket and gas prices drop! keep treading and did you see Kim Jong executed eighty? Don't stop when you see the soda pop--buy the thirty-two pack and keep an eye out because war is on our doorstep.

I move my books aside and with one swipe slide the rest off the side of the desk and into the bin.