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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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I'm just too masculine

Submitted by Katherine Scalia on April 21, 2008 - 11:42.

Why is it
Boys can’t hula-hoop?
And have you ever
Seen them try?
They concentrate real hard an all
But just can’t
make that hoop fly.
They all have this notion
To spin that ring real fast.
Thinking if they hope
the spinning motion’ last.
The beads inside simply rattle
With no smoothness to the sound.
They bounce around on boys hips
Just to smack the ground.
And maybe it’s because
They have a bulge within their pants
That gets caught up on the hula-hoop
So boys just simply can’t.

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