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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.
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Week 22: Poe's key -- Bogdanowicz

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Submitted by ggevalt on March 30, 2007 - 16:57.

By Adam Bogdanowicz
Renaissance School, Grade 5

Was it not the pitch-black smoke
That framed the golden windowsill?
Or if it was a moonbeam that shone,
The inky dark need not be scared.
Upon the sill, lay the golden thing
The raven carried off into the night.
Off it flew, wings beating like bellows
Against a fire. And just
As the domed horizon turned to light,
And the black-winged creature reached the nest,
Off it fell.
And the raven screeched and it seemed
so did the key.

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