Washing up is a mysterious thing

that happens in the kitchen

normally after meals

although he is never completely sure of this.

Sometimes he decides to be helpful

and takes a glass, a mug or a tea-plate out

placing it down right in the middle

of a cleared, washed down work-top,

completely ignoring that neat little stack

of dirty crockery over in the corner

under the window, whether or not

they are currently being washed up.

After all, it is not up to him to interfere

with what wifey has going on over at the sink.

Is it?