Vacuum-Packed

To save on space and shipping costs

When packages are stacked,

So many items nowadays

Are sent out vacuum-packed.

 

My daughter’s teddy bear arrived,

All squished up in a ball.

You’d never guess that it could be

A teddy bear at all.

 

Yet once we managed (it was tough!)

To help the bear get out

From all his plastic, he puffed up

(Despite my nagging doubt).

 

The modern world has different ways

To send out what we need.

If we could vacuum-pack ourselves,

The airlines would take heed.