In the left inner coat pocket.

[Wrote this my junior year of college for a creative-writing class. These actually were the contents of just one pocket of my winter coat. I forgot that I was such a pack rat.]

• 3 coins, United States currency, 25¢ each
• 1 packet white facial tissues, Kleenex brand
• 1 pack Wrigley's Winterfresh chewing gum, "Plen-T-Pak" 17-stick size, 15 sticks remaining, wrapped
• 1 trail map, Snowmass Ski Area, 1994–1995 Ski Season, worn and un-unfoldable
• 1 handmade thank-you note, in crayon, for birthday gift given spontaneously and at no expense at a concert to a stranger, with e-mail address, never used, folded
• 1 handwritten note, in blue pen, folded and worn—on one side, "Will trade CASH, a HUG, and UNDYING GRATITUDE AND RESPECT for tickets"; on the other side, "WE HAVE [GUITARIST IN ROCK BAND] WILL TRADE FOR TICKETS"
• 1 letter from an exgirlfriend, signed "me"—random excerpt, "I have the worst cramps right now & I think I am going to throw-up, well I won't throw-up, but I feel like shit. Oh, by the way, I didn't understand the last part of the letter w/ the little box"—meaning long since forgotten—10/21/??
• 1 course schedule, folded, worn, torn, with class listing for second term tenth grade
• 1 miniature Ziplock bag from Manny's Music, empty, used once to hold 6 Martin 1.2mm guitar picks purchased from Manny's Music, once to hold 2 marijuana cigarettes given generously and unsolicited by a friend in tenth grade
• 2 Martin 1.2mm guitar picks
• 1 pin, whale-shaped, given as nonromantic gift (received as romantic gift) in tenth grade
• 6 flakes paper, worn to clothlike texture
• 1 note passed in class many years ago—random excerpt, "Allow me to pontificate; / my logic can't be loopèd. / See, I can enumerate / the ways that you are stoopid."
• 0 little glowingly scribbled love letters