Poem A Day Challenge April 8, 2019

I am still participating in April's Poem A Day Challenge. 
Here is today's endeavour. There are parts I'm still struggling with, but I really must move on to other things. 

Dealing With The Inevitable

I am not a tidy mouse

Defining fun as cleaning house

Domesticity is a curse

When you suffer from word thirst

In this I'm like my mother

Who had many other

Passions that I share

What do I care

If surfaces stockpile dust

My interest is in what is just

Researching my thesis

Cutting fabric into pieces

Let me be I must implore

I don't mean to be a bore

Just leave me in my cosy nook

Safely ensconced inside my book 

Adventure, romance, mystery

Nonfiction and or fantasy

Whisk me away from this 

Accumulating messiness

It's not that tough

The basic stuff

Sweeping an occasional floor

Doing an occasional chore

I'm sure that you agree with me

One can live with some debris 

Children's toys upon the floor

Are really not an eyesore

There is much I'd rather do

Than cleaning kind of hullabaloo 

But there comes a time 

When I cannot rhyme 

When rooms with dust are laden

Vacuuming becomes a trade in

As much as I love poetry

Breathing's a priority

It's quite unsettling I confess

To see the bathroom such a mess

The time has come to scour the tub

give the toilet a good scrub 

And lo this miserable kitchen

I must step up, I must pitch in

There's grunge in here I must assail

Where did I leave the mop and pail?

I have a little secret
You won't find in a leaflet
Cleaning's not that tragic

When you have a store of magic

I'll just put my earbuds in

And let the audiobook begin