Lists

[Keith McMullen]

Glass Medicine Cabinet:

The shelves bore iodine, Mercurochrome, vitamin capsules, dental  
floss, aspirin, Anacin, Bufferin, Argyrol, Musterole, Ex-Lax, Milk of  
Magnesia, Sal Hepatica, Aspergum, two Gillette razors, one Schick  
Injector razor, two tubes of shaving cream, a bent and somewhat torn  
snapshot of a fat black-and-white cat asleep on a porch railing,  
three combs, two hairbrushes, a bottle of Wildroot hair ointment, a  
bottle of Fitch Dandruff Remover, a small, unlabelled box of  
glycerine suppositories, Vicks Nose Drops, Vicks VapoRub, six bars of  
castile soap, the stubs of three tickets to a 1946 musical comedy  
("Call Me Mister"), a tube of depilatory cream, a box of Kleenex, two  
seashells, an assortment of used-looking emery boards, two jars of  
cleansing cream, three pairs o£ scissors, a nail file, an unclouded  
blue marble (known to marble shooters, at least in the twenties, as a  
"purey"), a cream for contracting enlarged pores, a pair of tweezers,  
the strapless chassis of a girl's or woman's gold wristwatch, a box  
of bicarbonate of soda, a girl's boarding-school class ring with a  
chipped onyx stone, a bottle of Stopette--and, inconceivably or no,  
quite a good deal more.