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Prompt responses due Friday

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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my special prom night

Submitted by goblamecanada on April 23, 2008 - 12:24.

We danced all night long
Until she came home with me
One night stand oh man

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hahaha

Submitted by karlie on April 26, 2008 - 19:56.

i laugh.
I was reading all these deep and meaningful pieces
and I was like, "wow I have no idea what's going on,"
and then...
BOOM
there's your's. AND I LAUGHED.
thank you for this.
haha

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UVM Mentor Comment

Submitted by slunden on April 28, 2008 - 23:28.

Hey Denny,

Awesome haiku. It's not often on this site that we mentors come across any...er, adult material, but, having only began writing poems myself during my second year of college, I really do think that such...instances make for some of the best poetry. Haikus, and short poems in general, are a good form for such topics, because you can only say so much, and that's usually all anyone wants to hear (or, in the case of the age range of this website, should read). Keep writing haikus - they are really hard to master, but I think you've got the knack. My only suggestion, if you plan to do anything else with this poem, is to just call it "Prom Night." Again, as fits the haiku form, subtlety is key.

Thanks for submitting,
Suzanne

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