What Sam Found in His Backpack After Break

- one library copy of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground
(overdue)

- one composition notebook with “Sam’s journal” written on the cover
with a black Sharpie.

- two blackened banana peels, and one browned apple core,
slightly shriveled.

- one black, long-sleeve “Mumford and Sons” t-shirt.

- one pack of tissues.

- five crumpled tissues, gently used.

- 10 sheets of lined paper with partial poems, all entitled “Sandy”
wadded up in balls.

- one 2 GB Sony Voice recorder.

- two phone chargers.

- one red umbrella with cats and dogs printed on it and the words,
“It’s raining cats and dogs.”

- one large stainless steel coffee mug.

- three pens

- a large ink stain.

- regret.