Ray wants to bake a cake.
Marguerite wants to float
on her gecko
in the pool.

These are, of course,
wonderful
things, fun and profitable.

I must try to
think of the fun
and not the work it will create.

I must,
or they will remember
that I was

no fun.

So I must be sure we have eggs
and sunscreen
when he gets home,
and when she gets up.