Encouraging
Then cajoling
Bribing with a sirens' song
Escalating to
ordering
and demanding,
Once a Lady, now a Tiger
Disheveled shelves
scattered toys
I had Great Expectations
Stubborn
Determined
This will not be a 10 year siege,
or A Tale of Two Cities
My best laid plans have gang aft agley
I need divine intervention for laundry
I shout as the Prince to Verona
(but they don't know my allusions):
"I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;
Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:
Therefore use none..."
Banish Barbie, drive your little ponies away
Just help me clean