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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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Wonderings

Submitted by catwithmustache on April 19, 2008 - 14:32.

If not for words, would we still have questions?
Could we think, if our language was lost?
I sense a change already, falling backwards
Forever I am plummeting from a higher elevation
Too afraid to open my eyes.

If not for breath, would we still have air?
Can life grow and change without oxygen?
As my lungs expand, I raise my eyelids slowly
But as always, I only see what I want to see
Too afraid to face the honesty of truth.

The moon is my ghost, as I land softly
I leave no footprints on its cratered surface
One question at a time, one breath after the other
Though I am no magician, I still feel the magic
There is life all around me, holding me up.

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