THE THINGS AT MIL'S WRITING PLACE

---Oil cloth cover, with cheerful fruits and flowers...

---Two small "credenzas" with little drawers...

---Atomic clock...

---several scissors, various sizes

---Scotch tape, masking tape, duct tape

---Band Aids and rubber bands

---a shoe spoon and back scratcher

---magnifying glass

---a small orange sucker, from hearing aid place

---a miniature peanut butter Snicker

---Cross "rolling ball" pens, with real ink refills

---black and red Sharpies

---spiral phone number book

---Staples 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 white legal pads

---holder full of 4 X 6 cards

---some meds

---small yellow-handled reversible screwdriver

---small pliers, made (where else) in China

---stapler 

---Norelco electric shaver (dull)

---handy little Kleenex box of tissues

---small binoculars

---assorted ballpoints

---a small peanut butter Snicker

---two six inch straight edges

---desk calendar showing June 2016

---camp spoon, small can of Van Camp's beans

---half-full Whataburger coffee mug, cold

---can of SPAM, for atmosphere

---SNOOPY, wearing a winter knit cap

---envelopes full of old photos

---a Swiss Army knife

---tortoise comb

---stack of writings

---bottle of leather balm for Mini-Apple case

---Deluxe poems and photos of Robert Service

---"William Wordsworth, Selected Poetry"

---pack of Trident chewing gum, made in England

---nearby, two bookshelves---top shelf covered 

     with animals...A Moose, A "Buffler," a duck

     decoy, a camel, a lounging frog, "Gus," my

      symbolic MIL'S PLACE pig, dozens of tiny

      gift animals; & "Jeremiah," the Meditating Frog

      down at the end of the top shelf, by the 

      Globe of the World...

---not least...a miniature  5x5 stained-glass 

     window, the BIBLE, and a 1957 Hymnal---

     all to ever point me upward...

How can one help but write...with all these

wonderful aids?!

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BY MIL

9/23/16