Not-Quite-Happy Returns
A package comes, you open it
And, though it seems to match
The order that you placed, there is
A big or little catch.
It doesn’t fit or isn’t quite
The item you expected
Or maybe there’s a problem
In the way it was inspected.
You print a label, wrap it up
And rapidly return it.
If there’s a lesson there, it isn’t
Hard for you to learn it:
The purchases we make online,
Though easy, cheap and quick,
Unlike the ones in person,
Often do not seem to stick.
Copyright © Ilene Bauer | Year Posted 2022
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