{ A Catalogue of Items Found under a Living Room Couch after One Year and One Month's Worth of Neglectful Cleaning } Cindy Yogmas
1. 79 centstwo quarters, one time, three nickels, four pennies 2. A single orange sockneither resident owns its counterpart 3. A single gray sockrecently reunited with its estranged partner 4. A business card for lawn care servicewe don't have a lawn 5. A spool of surplus rust-colored thread leftover from mending friend's corduroys three months ago 6. Six ball point pensthree black, two blue, one red 7. A cap for a felt tip markermarker still AWOL 8. An empty container of birth control pillsprescription terminated fourteen months ago 9. Three paperclips one creatively bended into miniature dada-esque art, perhaps for the use of cleaning under fingernails or opening plastic wrap on new Cds 10. Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers III most overrated game ever, probably kicked under couch in frustration for never completing final battle ship level 11. Half-dozen inch-thick mounds of dusty, grayish cat furcats are orange and calico 12. One ball of aluminum foilundoubtedly the work of one of the aforementioned cats 13. Three issues of a defunct local weekly paperthough both residents were former employees, neither were contributors for any of said issues 14. Non-IBM compatible floppy discartifact from early college days when old Macs were currently in use 15. Unidentifiable foil wrapper, either from inside of a pack or cigarettes or stick of chewing gum 16. Two bottle capsone Amstel Light and one Yuengling Lager 17. Pay stub from former job at local publishing company, dated November 14, 2001 18. Double A batteryperhaps discarded from replacing battery in living room clock 19. Lipstick pencilSephora shade #605sorely missed and prematurely replaced 20. VHS videoPeter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rockclassic movie skillfully found at local thrift store 21. Skeletal remnant of a peacock featherfrom calico kitten's days of predatory training 22. Petrified stub of a baby carrot, two grapes in process of becoming raisins, countless kernels of unpopped popcorn