Mr. Exhaustion

                        Arrives home after another softball weekend –

Sunburned, hungry, and hating that Monday’s coming –

                      Ponders dinner options

Deciding on peanut butter bread

                      Eating over the sink

In order to avoid washing dishes

                      Wiping the butter knife off with a napkin

Disposing said napkin in the trash

                      Slipping the “clean” butter knife back in the drawer

Leaving the open peanut butter jar and loaf of bread out

                      Stumbling up the stairs to bed

Stepping on his daughter’s dirty uniform

                        Leaving the laundry for another day

Sprawling onto said bed

                        Without even getting under the covers

Mrs. Exhaustion is already asleep

                        Tomorrow waits for him, them

Always