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Fool-ish

Prompt: Last will and punishment says what to you on this first day of April. Take it in any direction you want.

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Happy April!
April Fools' Day today, isn't it? Just made for me.

As for the prompt, is last will a punishment or is it punishment to think and worry about the last will? The chicken and the egg, right?
Here's what I came up with, off the top of my head:


Worrywart

He watches his son pour out the sand
from a toy spiderman bucket,
creating craggy continents
but it will be over, after surging waves, towels,
beach balls rolling out many summers,
and, so soon!

Those amber shells will end up in a jar
just like human dust
for the last will to be read
just not yet,
not before the sunscreen dries off
and popsicle sticks are discarded.

He wipes his brow, divining,
the future is almost here
and its trap is set.
Such punishment
for one sunburned prophet of doom
with blistering imagination!