Housekeeping

The essential trick to
Good housekeeping
Is to let someone else
Do the job either for
You or else with you.
Sharing housework is
Every young bride’s
Dashed illusion,
And every experienced
Housewife’s triumph
When her husband gets
Used to neatness and
Actually lends a hand.
A man’s natural state in
A messy house is entropy,
A woman’s is to clean
And straighten.
Tendencies I
Admit but
Often
The
Case in
Most marriages.
I was trained for 72 years
To straighten up and fly right
As a kid at home, dorm counselor,
And husband, every day in the
Daddy corps is a holiday
Every week is a
Vacation.
Urah
Is replaced
By Uruk-hai who
Can run errands all
Day and still straighten
Up and fix a meal
That is not
Burgers.
Otherwise, the
Same rules apply
To husbands as to
Lecturers, “Be entertaining
Or I will fire you!”
An apt lesson I
Learned
Long
Ago.