After I left,
Mom went Cargo Cult
on my bedroom desk.
Carefully boxed up were:

-Report cards I never read -Yellowed rolling papers -old fashioned hand sharpener (green) -letters from a girl I met at Philmont (and never wrote to) -small pine cone – Topps card #5 from original Star Wars series (Princess Leia) -Strat-O-Matic baseball team from 1982 (Washington Dead Kennedys) – two flint arrowheads -Photocopy of “Harrison Bergeron” annotated for speech competitions – index cards -Boyle County Public Library card -Chemistry notes, Physics notes, Calculus notes (became an English Lit major) – stack of party polaroids -old glasses -stack of old Far Side page a day calendar pages  

I bought the Collected Gary Larsen Far Side years ago.
I glued the princess to my laptop.