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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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Don't Go

Dreamsprite's picture
Submitted by Dreamsprite on April 15, 2008 - 19:03.

Sorry daddy
Didn't mean for you to walk out that door.
Didn't mean for mommy to yell you out the window.

Should have known when you started laying out a suitcase each morning
On your bed that's now covered in dust.
Should have know when you started giving me the saddest eyes
When I said "Bye Daddy!"
Should have known when you started sitting in the car
For hours and hours looking blankly ahead.
Should have known when you started coming home later and later
each night

Now you're just standing here, all alone.
Mommy's got a new set of pills in the bathroom
And she doesn't bother to look at me anymore.
uneasy silence
Is this the time when I should start worrying?
Is this a fading dream or a creeping reality?

bluedisch.'s picture

oh, dreamy i love you with a

Submitted by bluedisch. on April 15, 2008 - 19:06.

oh, dreamy
i love you
with a burning
passion and
I will never
cease to love
you

-huggle-

well written,
but painful.
i'm sorry.

-soapy

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