window shopping

Sam meandered along

the sleepy retail street,

looked past his sad reflection

in a shop window full of knives

and cheap wigs on a pole.

For just $39.95,

he could be all set and equipped
for a brief.......... spree.

He was short about ten though,

so he turned back into the glare

and retreated to his room in the hotel

over the shoe repair shop

and the pizza parlor

with a slice of pepperoni instead.