Not that he promised not to windowshop, <br />or refuse free samples; but he gave up <br />exploring warehouse bargains, and forgot <br />the trial offers he used to mail away for. <br /> <br />After, that is, she laid on the counter what <br />she'd long kept hidden under the penny-candy, <br />and demonstrated (one up-country Sunday) <br />the total inventory of one wife's general store.<br /><br />Philip Booth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-man-s-wife/
