Spring House Cleaning

SPRING HOUSE CLEANING now – reluctantly – i must face spring house cleaning, needed yearly chore, this not a cheerful labor, not done smiling and singing for once too often dirt’s been swept under a rug with such abandon, but mind knows where the filth hides and so too the wily bugs it’s a crying shame – when one might be out of doors inhaling spring air, walking out with head held high – to be saddled with house chores no, no, i say no! house cleaning is winter work when the snow is deep, piled ten feet against the door, when nature has gone berserk i now sit and think what i did all winter long was I fast asleep while the ugly dirt piled up, all ambition denied – gone? i’m a large old man some say i procrastinate some say i’m cranky the kids call me an old bear lame excuse – bears hibernate