We packed for our trip to Victoria
Enough for three days and three nights.
We packed in a purse and a book bag
With each of us taking a backpack.
Our friends wondered, “Where is your suitcase?
How can you be taking so little?”
We went there with jackets and sweaters
With gloves, shirts, pants, socks, shoes and underwear,
With swimming suits, hair brushes, toothbrushes,
With toothpaste, two kinds of shampoo,
Deodorant, painkillers, cold pills,
Prescriptions and wallets and nail clippers,
Two digital recorders with earphones,
CD player, CD’s and books,
With playing cards, credit cards, dental floss,
Keys, pens and a Braille-writing slate,
Two cell phones with power adapters,
And a housecoat with soft woollen slippers.
How many would stare disbelieving
At our house overflowing with bounty
And scoff when I said we were striving
To pack light for a trip to Victoria?
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