| "You can learn a lot about a woman just by looking at her purse and its contents." John Gray, PhD. Author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
purse: black.
first pocket: pen, black. 0.7 point
cards. local paper's editor and the publisher.
movie ticket: The Last of the Mohicans .
perfume samples: channel no. 5, blv, dkny woman, babydoll, opium, pleasures.
a wrapper of Big Red bubblegum.
a note from Sasha, "what happened to the hot guy? did he drop the class?"
coins: two quarters. a dime.
a rhinestone choker.
a $.69 receipt from the Mini Mart. don't ask.
Mints. Label in korean. Can't read.
$16.73 in cash. Must pass go, must collect $200.
pocket number two: a laminated gum wrapper with a wilted flower drawn on it: Valentine's day gift from last year that actually meant something.
cherry chapstick.
pens: black and burgundy. 0.5 and 0.9 respectively.
Dead cellphone. I hate things that ring. Things that electronically chain me to others...
House keys that unlock a door thousands of miles away.
hidden pocket: little notebook with thoughts and poetry. excerpt: words get in my way.
pen, black. 0.7. pencil, B6
lighter.
miniature phone and email address book.
big pocket: "bodies": the empty bodies stand at rest/ casualties of their own flesh/ afflicted by their dispossession/ but no bodies ever knew/ nobodys/ no bodies felt like you/ nobodys/ love is suicide. indeed.
Film 400 iso, black and white. Wonder what's in it?
necessities: eucalyptus lip balm. xs hand lotion. mirror, bought in Russia. gorgeous.
pen, black. 0.5
wallet.
wallet: uncashed check: $75 from poetry contest, date: 05/09/01.
A one million dollar bill with ms. liberty on it; actual cost $3.00.
Hotel room key card; I wonder where?
Folded paper: Song lyrics for a band we are still trying to put together.
Folded papers: Gagged girl in a corset. a picture of an eye, a girl in a cat suit with bat wings and whip. All my creations. Amazing what advanced chemistry can do for you.
List of books I need to read, movies I should watch.
cards: college radio station manager, office of the governor, indigenous affairs office, tattoo & art studio, card with appointment to see optolmologist.
card holders: coco chanel bottle-shaped perfume sample with a phone number scribbled across it, no name. I should know better. I am terrible with names.
Condom, pleasure for her.
Body paint pocket-size: vanilla.
old cookie fortune: effort will help you reap rewards.
picture holders: picture one: the dynamic duo, guns ready to shoot. you don't know what kind of fire you are playing with.
picture two: contortionists -- Chelsea and I in a tangle.
picture three: the boy who changed me. a self-warning.
okay, we have been through my purse. what can we infer?
I am loosely organized. I like perfume. I don't know how to cash a check. I am private about poetry. I can have rather emo-ish thoughts. Pens are more important to me than anything else in there. I like perfume. I have a bad memory. I don't return keys to hotels. I don't develop my film right away. I like perfume. I am selfish in bed, but I am good with my intellectual foreplay. I like to get people's cards when I meet them because I am bad with names. Really bad. I like art and seem to be behind in pop culture. I like classic movies -- especially with classic silver screen sirens. I really like perfume.
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