Immaculate Perception

This house of ours, so
ordinarily immaculate
has become a piquantly hellish
place since inviting two
sibling puppies to share a 
home with us. Some trade-off
that is, for the ordered neatness
and predictability of a house
lacking the substance and
vigour of youthful joy and
exuberance, a pair of
devilishly wild puppies'
presence replete with laughter
and amazing acrobatic
cheekiness, feats of silly
courage and loving excess
weighed against staid, elderly
boredom, and a tidy home.
On the other hand, of course,
they are action-omnivorous
curious and adventurous little 
monsters and we may 
not yet survive this frantic
paradisaical exposure.