Good friends
coming to stay
for a week
I’m pleased
and I’m not
If I could only say
“There’s the fridge
Help yourselves
I’ll fix my own later”
it would be easy
but instead
I market, cook
set tables, serve
clean up
saying, “No, no don’t help,
I’d really rather do it myself”
When they do help
I can’t find anything afterwards
yet if they don’t
I bang around the kitchen
resenting them.